TYPHOON TRACK PREDICTION EXPERIMENTS USING T106L19

1 INTRODUCTION The tropical cyclone is one of destructive weather systems that affect China most seriously. The destruction includes strong winds, heavy rain and storm surges. The key to mitigate them is whether we could predict the track accurately and on a timely basis. A number of coastal countries have adopted numerical forecast operation models that have long valid duration. For instance, in the limited-area spectral models and global spectral models currently running in the Meteo…

TYPHOON TRACK PREDICTION EXPERIMENTS USING T106L19

A series of 96-h typhoon track prediction experiments were carried out using medium range forecasting system of NMC by adding BOGUS typhoon (simplified as B-TC) into the first guess field or the analysis field in order to provide longer time typhoon track forecast. The results show that T106L19 could provide a better forecast to typhoon tracks when the B-TC was added, especially when the typhoon vortex is even weaker. The sensitive experiments on where to add the B-TC show that the results from adding the B-TC into the first guess field are better. The results also show that the initialization smoothes the B-TC a lot and this will affect the typhoon track prediction.