卫星云图反演资料质量控制方案在暴雨模拟中的对比研究

本文以2003年7月9～10日发生在江淮流域的暴雨过程为例，应用FY-2B卫星红外云图灰度资料，利用统计回归的反演方法求出高分辨率的温度和湿度的反演场用于改进预报的初始场。设计和对比了几种质量控制方案，再将控制后的反演场与常规资料进行同化，最后用MM5模式进行了模拟对比试验。结果表明：在模式的初始场中引入卫星云图反演场能反映出更为细致的中尺度结构，有效地增强了对降水有重要影响的高湿区；锋生函数质量控制方案改善模式的初始场，从而改善了MM5模式降水预报的落区和强度，提高了降水预报准确性及Ts评分。     

海浪和海洋飞沫对“珊珊”台风影响的数值研究

台风是剧烈的天气系统,在开放的海上强风激起大浪,改变了海表粗糙度,同时,海浪顶端的白泡沫破碎,在海-气界面处会出现大量的海洋飞沫。基于共享内存的进程间通信技术应用到区域大气和海浪模式的耦合中,大气模式引入了Fairall和Andreas两种海洋飞沫参数化方案,对2006年珊珊台风进行了模拟对比试验,结果表明:耦合模式通过海-气相互作用,对台风的强度产生影响,由于耦合模式在海表粗糙度的计算上考虑了海表状况,使得耦合模式模拟的台风强度更接近实况,而对台风的移动路径影响不大;耦合模式中海-气相互作用主要通过动力因素来对台风产生影响,海表状况影响了海表粗糙度,从而使台风的动量输送发生变化,具体的台风强度增强还是减弱主要取决于海表状况与实况的符合程度;海洋飞沫参数化主要通过热力场的改变来影响动力场,Fairall方案中潜热通量和感热通量得到很大程度的加强,使得台风的热力结构得以改变,台风强度明显加强,从而影响了动力场结构;Andreas方案由于其界面通量算法在高相对湿度条件下计算界面通量时得到的量值较小,虽然高风速条件下感热通量加大,但总的潜热通量、感热通量较Fairall方案为弱,因此,模拟的台风强度不强;海洋飞沫参...     

FY-3A微波资料在“莫拉克”台风预报中的同化试验

我国新一代极轨气象卫星FY-3A于2008年5月26日发射成功,携带的微波垂直探测仪与NOAA系列卫星的ATOVS性能相似。为研究微波垂直探测仪资料在台风数值预报中的作用,实现我国FY-3A卫星的微波探测资料的直接同化,达到改进台风预报的目的,利用FY-3A微波探测资料,以WRF-3DVar系统为基础,针对2009年第8号台风"莫拉克"路径和强度预报,开展数值预报直接同化技术研究。试验结果表明,直接同化FY-3A微波资料对数值模式初始场改进要优于仅仅同化常规观测资料,对缺乏观测资料的海洋上改进尤为明显,模式初始场更加合理地反映海上台风环流形势以及温湿条件,海上台风的模式初始位置也得到了校正;经过FY-3A微波资料三维变分直接同化后,区域中尺度模式对台风路径预报效果具有积极的改善作用。     

湿地边界层通量影响热带气旋登陆维持和降水的数值试验

用MM5v3模式及其TC Bogus方案对台风Nina(7503)在中国大陆上的维持加强过程进行模拟,并通过各种敏感性试验,研究了饱和湿地对热带气旋在大陆上维持和降水的影响。结果表明:湿地边界层内各通量对登陆热带气旋的强度、结构及其降水具有明显影响。潜热通量和感热通量均有利于热带气旋的维持和加强,其中潜热输送的作用显著,感热输送的作用较小。潜热和感热通量有利于热带气旋雨带螺旋结构的维持,对台风降水分布有明显影响,动量通量对热带气旋风场有显著的削弱作用,是其能量耗散、低压填塞的主要原因,但对台风降水具有局地增幅作用。     

加密FY-2G云导风质量评估及其在GRAPES＿RAFS系统中的应用分析

采用2016年7月国家卫星气象中心提供的加密FY-2G资料,选用美国国家环境预报中心的FNL全球分析资料(Final Operational Global Analysis)为参考场,根据不同质量标识码QI(Quality Indicator)对其进行质量评估,并基于GRAPES(Global and Regional Assimilation and Prediction System)模式的GRAPES_RAFS(Rapid Analysis and Forecast System)系统分别进行了个例试验和连续试验。结果表明,QI≥80的加密FY-2G资料质量最好,相较于其他QI阈值,其偏差和均方根误差最小;对比业务使用的FY-2G红外通道云导风资料,加密FY-2G红外通道云导风的U分量偏差更接近正态分布。对2016年7月2 3日强降水个例进行了三组对比试验,结果表明:同化加密FY-2G红外通道云导风资料对850 h Pa高度场和风场分析有一定的调整作用,对24 h降水强度和落区预报有一定改善。连续试验结果表明同化加密FY-2G红外通道云导风资料对高层风场改善明显,24 h降水预报检验反映出全国区域中雨到暴雨级别的降水ETS评分提高。     

FY-2E晴空风矢同化对台风分析和预报的影响研究

为了研究“二阶差分法”反演的晴空区风矢同化在台风分析和预报中的作用,以1509号台风“灿鸿”和1211号台风“海葵”为例,首先利用WRF-3DVAR系统对晴空风矢进行同化,探讨了晴空风矢的引入对模式初始场的影响。然后利用WRF模式对两个个例分别进行48 h的预报试验。通过对比控制试验和同化试验,结果表明,同化晴空风矢资料能够对初始风场和位势高度场进行合理的调整,在台风周围引导气流的作用下,台风路径与实况更靠近,从而提高了台风路径的预报效果。除此之外,同化晴空风矢对台风强度以及风场预报也有一定的改善作用,还可更准确地预报出降水的落区及雨强,提高降水预报质量。因此,晴空风矢的引入,有利于改善模式的初始场,从而提高WRF模式对台风的预报能力。      

卫星反演湿度场及其在暴雨预报中的初步应用分析

文中分别用两套相对湿度初始场方案 ,对 5个暴雨个例进行了预报对比试验 ,探讨了利用GMS- 5卫星图象反演的高分辨率湿度场资料改进初始场 ,以提高暴雨中尺度数值预报水平的可能性。结果表明 :( 1 )引入卫星反演湿度场能较好地反映出实际湿度场的水平中尺度结构 ,尤其是有效地增强了对降水有重要影响的高湿区的分析 ,且与实际探空资料更为接近 ;( 2 )引入卫星反演湿度场资料改进初始场一般会使 2 4 h的降水预报评分有所提高 ,特别是具有使预报前期 ( 0～ 6h)的降水场向观测场逼近的作用 ,但对预报后期 ( 6～ 2 4 h)降水场的影响具有不确定性。     

GRAPES模式中地面通量在一次台风数值模拟中的敏感性试验研究

在中尺度天气数值预报模式（GRAPES）的边界层方案（MRF）中,地面通量的计算与模式分层有直接关系,可能引起计算结果的不准确。在模式中引入Beljaars方案,通过比较分析模拟的台风地表特征量及形势场和风场表明,引入的方案对台风强度和路径的预报效果都起到改善作用。对台风“巨爵”个例的模拟表明,引入Beljaars方案之后,其地表的潜热、感热通量均明显增强,摩擦速度最大值增大,说明地表向上传输的热通量、水汽通量、动量通量均增强,这都有利于台风的发展和加强,因此模拟的台风路径和强度也更接近实况;从台风结构来看,方案二模拟的台风倾斜垂直结构没有方案一的明显,暖心结构有所加强;从风场分析来看,台风眼区的风速低值中心可延伸到500 hPa的高度上,明显高于方案一。      

适应数值模式垂直坐标的GPS掩星反演资料稀疏化方案

GPS掩星反演大气温湿资料具有高垂直分辨率、高精度、受云和降水影响小等优点,针对GRAPES同化预报系统,发展设计了一种既考虑预报模式高度-地形追随垂直坐标不均匀分层特点,又结合掩星反演资料特性的新适应性垂直稀疏化方案。通过个例试验和批量试验,探索了该适应性稀疏化方案对分析预报质量的影响。试验结果表明:选取合适的稀疏参数,新稀疏化方案的GPS掩星反演资料对背景场的调整更加有效,分析场质量更高;位势高度、比湿、温度和风场等预报场的均方根误差均更小;适应性稀疏化方案对改善台风路径预报具有积极作用。批量试验则进一步证实了适应性稀疏化方案对分析场质量有明显的改善作用。     

Impact of Application of Cloud Motion Wind Data from FY-2C Satellite on Simulation of Typhoon Cases

针对0505号台风“海棠”,采用WRF区域中尺度模式进行控制试验和两个同化试验,利用WRF-3DVAR同化系统同化FY-2C红外和水汽两个通道云迹风反演产品,同化分云迹风经质量控制和未经质量控制两组同化试验.通过三组试验分析云迹风资料对降水和风场等的预报结果的影响,并进行24小时降水量分级Ts评分检验以及风场点对点检验.结果表明:同化经质量控制云迹风资料可以提高降水落区和强度预报的准确度,不同等级的Ts评分较其它试验都有较明显改进;风场预报模拟也有所改善.增加两例台风,使用与“海棠”相似的处理方法进行模拟试验,并对模拟结果24小时降水分析与检验,得到与“海棠”类似结论.因此,经过合理性选择的云迹风资料的加入,有利于补充初始场中可能未包含的中尺度信息,从而提高试验中对于降水、风场等的模拟效果,提高WRF模式的模拟预报能力.     

CHARACTERISTICS AND TRENDS OF CLIMATIC EXTREMES IN CHINA DURING 1959–2014

The spatial and temporal variations of daily maximum temperature(Tmax), daily minimum temperature(Tmin), daily maximum precipitation(Pmax) and daily maximum wind speed(WSmax) were examined in China using Mann-Kendall test and linear regression method. The results indicated that for China as a whole, Tmax, Tmin and Pmax had significant increasing trends at rates of 0.15℃ per decade, 0.45℃ per decade and 0.58 mm per decade,respectively, while WSmax had decreased significantly at 1.18 m·s~(-1) per decade during 1959—2014. In all regions of China, Tmin increased and WSmax decreased significantly. Spatially, Tmax increased significantly at most of the stations in South China(SC), northwestern North China(NC), northeastern Northeast China(NEC), eastern Northwest China(NWC) and eastern Southwest China(SWC), and the increasing trends were significant in NC, SC, NWC and SWC on the regional average. Tmin increased significantly at most of the stations in China, with notable increase in NEC, northern and southeastern NC and northwestern and eastern NWC. Pmax showed no significant trend at most of the stations in China, and on the regional average it decreased significantly in NC but increased in SC, NWC and the mid-lower Yangtze River valley(YR). WSmax decreased significantly at the vast majority of stations in China, with remarkable decrease in northern NC, northern and central YR, central and southern SC and in parts of central NEC and western NWC. With global climate change and rapidly economic development, China has become more vulnerable to climatic extremes and meteorological disasters, so more strategies of mitigation and/or adaptation of climatic extremes,such as environmentally-friendly and low-cost energy production systems and the enhancement of engineering defense measures are necessary for government and social publics.     

LOW-FREQUENCY CIRCULATION AND EXTENDED-RANGE FORECAST IN CONNECTION WITH AUTUMN EXTREME HEAVY RAINFALL PROCESS IN HAINAN

Observed daily precipitation data from the National Meteorological Observatory in Hainan province and daily data from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP/NCAR) reanalysis-2 dataset from 1981 to 2014 are used to analyze the relationship between Hainan extreme heavy rainfall processes in autumn (referred to as EHRPs) and 10–30 d low-frequency circulation. Based on the key low-frequency signals and the NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2 (CFSv2) model forecasting products, a dynamical-statistical method is established for the extended-range forecast of EHRPs. The results suggest that EHRPs have a close relationship with the 10–30 d low-frequency oscillation of 850 hPa zonal wind over Hainan Island and to its north, and that they basically occur during the trough phase of the low-frequency oscillation of zonal wind. The latitudinal propagation of the low-frequency wave train in the middle-high latitudes and the meridional propagation of the low-frequency wave train along the coast of East Asia contribute to the ‘north high (cold), south low (warm)’ pattern near Hainan Island, which results in the zonal wind over Hainan Island and to its north reaching its trough, consequently leading to EHRPs. Considering the link between low-frequency circulation and EHRPs, a low-frequency wave train index (LWTI) is defined and adopted to forecast EHRPs by using NCEP CFSv2 forecasting products. EHRPs are predicted to occur during peak phases of LWTI with value larger than 1 for three or more consecutive forecast days. Hindcast experiments for EHRPs in 2015–2016 indicate that EHRPs can be predicted 8–24 d in advance, with an average period of validity of 16.7 d.     

AN ATTRIBUTION ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION IN THE BEIJING–TIANJIN–HEBEI REGION UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE

Based on the measurements obtained at 64 national meteorological stations in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) region between 1970 and 2013, the potential evapotranspiration (ET0) in this region was estimated using the Penman–Monteith equation and its sensitivity to maximum temperature (Tmax), minimum temperature (Tmin), wind speed (Vw), net radiation (Rn) and water vapor pressure (Pwv) was analyzed, respectively. The results are shown as follows. (1) The climatic elements in the BTH region underwent significant changes in the study period. Vw and Rn decreased significantly, whereas Tmin, Tmax and Pwv increased considerably. (2) In the BTH region, ET0 also exhibited a significant decreasing trend, and the sensitivity of ET0 to the climatic elements exhibited seasonal characteristics. Of all the climatic elements, ET0 was most sensitive to Pwv in the fall and winter and Rn in the spring and summer. On the annual scale, ET0 was most sensitive to Pwv, followed by Rn, Vw, Tmax and Tmin. In addition, the sensitivity coefficient of ET0 with respect to Pwv had a negative value for all the areas, indicating that increases in Pwv can prevent ET0 from increasing. (3) The sensitivity of ET0 to Tmin and Tmax was significantly lower than its sensitivity to other climatic elements. However, increases in temperature can lead to changes in Pwv and Rn. The temperature should be considered the key intrinsic climatic element that has caused the "evaporation paradox" phenomenon in the BTH region.     

ANALYSIS OF “BIMODAL PATTERN” STORM ACTIVITY CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BAY OF BENGAL

Storms that occur at the Bay of Bengal (BoB) are of a bimodal pattern, which is different from that of the other sea areas. By using the NCEP, SST and JTWC data, the causes of the bimodal pattern storm activity of the BoB are diagnosed and analyzed in this paper. The result shows that the seasonal variation of general atmosphere circulation in East Asia has a regulating and controlling impact on the BoB storm activity, and the “bimodal period” of the storm activity corresponds exactly to the seasonal conversion period of atmospheric circulation. The minor wind speed of shear spring and autumn contributed to the storm, which was a crucial factor for the generation and occurrence of the “bimodal pattern” storm activity in the BoB. The analysis on sea surface temperature (SST) shows that the SSTs of all the year around in the BoB area meet the conditions required for the generation of tropical cyclones (TCs). However, the SSTs in the central area of the bay are higher than that of the surrounding areas in spring and autumn, which facilitates the occurrence of a “two-peak” storm activity pattern. The genesis potential index (GPI) quantifies and reflects the environmental conditions for the generation of the BoB storms. For GPI, the intense low-level vortex disturbance in the troposphere and high-humidity atmosphere are the sufficient conditions for storms, while large maximum wind velocity of the ground vortex radius and small vertical wind shear are the necessary conditions of storms.     

Revisiting the Concentration Observations and Source Apportionment of Atmospheric Ammonia

正While China’s Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan on particulate matter since 2013 has reduced sulfate significantly, aerosol ammonium nitrate remains high in East China. As the high nitrate abundances are strongly linked with ammonia, reducing ammonia emissions is becoming increasingly important to improve the air quality of China. Although satellite data provide evidence of substantial increases in atmospheric ammonia concentrations over major agricultural regions, long-term surface observation of ammonia concentrations are sparse. In addition, there is still no consensus on     

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As we will soon celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Meteorological Society （CMS）,Acta Meteorologica Sinica （AMS）,which was originally named as Bulletin of the Chinese Meteorological Society,has gone through 89 years of development and excitement since her first issue in July 1925.According to archived documents （CMS Editorial Committee,1925）,AMS was founded to report the research findings of Chinese meteorologists,record their recommendations for improving meteorological services,and share their common meteorological interests in order to promote the growth of AMS such that more members could be inspired to conduct atmospheric research and meteorological knowledge would be better disseminated to and benefit the general public.By upholding and carrying forward this purpose,AMS has published many highly valuable scientific papers.Some could be treated as classical articles,which have produced important influences on both domestic and international meteorological communities and the related fields.