© Crown copyright Met Office Recent progress in the application of GPSRO data at the Met Office Michael Rennie, OPAC 2010 Workshop, 07/09/10.

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© Crown copyright Met Office Recent progress in the application of GPSRO data at the Met Office Michael Rennie, OPAC 2010 Workshop, 07/09/10

© Crown copyright Met Office Outline 1.Status at the Met Office 2.Monitoring GPSRO data 3.Extra QC for bending angle assimilation 4.Bending angle up to 60 km to improve model biases

© Crown copyright Met Office 1. Status at Met Office Assimilate bending angle: COSMIC (profile bottom-40 km), ~56% of occs GRAS (10-40 km), ~40% GRACE-A (profile bottom-40 km), ~4% Into: Global model (~25 km horizontal resolution, 84 km model top, 70 vertical levels) NAE (North Atlantic and European) model (12 km, horizontal, 84 km model top, 70 vertical levels) Crisis Area Models GPSRO important component of observing system: OSEs: 1-2 points on the NWP index (out of ~140) – a weighted RMS based skill score. Impact similar to IASI (IR sounder) in magnitude (in 2007). Useful diagnosing model problems with: high vertical resolution; low bias; only ob type to use pressure state vector above surface.

© Crown copyright Met Office One of best examples of impact. MSLP in SH, Dec 2008 RMS error Mean error Vs. surface obsVs. analyses

© Crown copyright Met Office Number of occultations assimilated per 6 hour cycle QU00 QU06 ~ occs per 6 hours.

© Crown copyright Met Office 2. Monitoring Very small bias Sonde’s understimate humidity Vaisala RS92: (COSMIC - RS92)/RS92 SIPPICAN (USA): (COSMIC – SIPP)/SIPP Co-located COSMIC and radiosonde refractivity (3 hrs, 300 km)

© Crown copyright Met Office REF (COSMIC - GRAS)/GRASBA (COSMIC - GRAS)/GRAS COSMIC and GRAS co-located stats (3hrs, 300 km)

© Crown copyright Met Office GRAS BA (O-B)/B vertical correlationCOSMIC BA (O-B)/B vertical correlation GRAS and COSMIC BA agree well in terms of bias, but BA vertical correlations are quite different Different vertical smoothing/filters? *see more at

© Crown copyright Met Office 2. Extra QC for bending angle (BA) BA used in global model since Mar D forward model: Algorithm by Sean Healy (ECMWF). UKMO implementation described in Rennie, M. P., 2010: The impact of GPS radio occultation assimilation at the Met Office (QJRMS) Available in ROPP ( Successfully adopted by the Naval Research Laboratory (Monterey, USA) also. BA vs. REF: modest improvement of +0.4 in NWP index (overall RO impact 1-2 points). Other benefits of BA: Use GPSRO higher without assimilating a priori climatology. Smaller vertical error correlations – can assume diagonal R.

© Crown copyright Met Office A problem with BA in VAR Tangent-linear (TL) approx. used in VAR for updates in forward modelled observation (saves computational cost): However, BA operator too non-linear when prior model state has approaching-ducting refractivity vertical gradients Derivative of H wrt specific humidity becomes very large. TL updates created negative BA (unphysical). Led to irregular convergence in 4D-Var – needed method to avoid sharp gradients: Calculate the model REF vertical gradient, and reject data below the height where gradient reaches a threshold. <= -80 1/km (N units) was found to suffice. OSE show impact of new QC is neutral.

© Crown copyright Met Office Problem exacerbated by -ve bias in BA (also in REF) Seen in trade-wind inversion regions (Sc areas). large O-B departures cause larger dx for TL update: Could argue the forward model is not simulating the obs accurately – since actual behaviour of instrument is complex in such conditions!

© Crown copyright Met Office Mid-Atlantic Near Africa South-west of Australia model obs IR imagery shows Sc Example –ve biased COSMIC BA profiles

© Crown copyright Met Office 3. Using BA to 60 km New 70-level model can have large temperature biases around stratopause: Unified Model alone does not develop biases – problem lies with DA. Related to correlations in background error covariance matrix between troposphere and stratosphere. Biases develop around Winter-polar vortex. Artificially reducing analysis increments above ~50 km improves the bias. Can increasing the vertical range of GPSRO BA to 60 km help?

© Crown copyright Met Office Affect of higher GPSRO on biases in Nov 2009 Zonal mean[(O-B)/B]: BA used to 40 km Zonal mean[(O-B)/B]: BA used to 60 km GPSRO can ‘see’ the vertical structure of the stratospheric/mesospheric bias

© Crown copyright Met Office Biases seen with Microwave Limb Sounder retrievals Plot courtesy of Brett Candy 0.1 hPa: model cold bias 1 hPa: model warm bias

© Crown copyright Met Office Min. temp. at 0.1 hPa, with potential solutions to cold bias Plot courtesy of Mike Thurlow Control is too cold

© Crown copyright Met Office Max. temp. at 0.1 hPa Plot courtesy of Mike Thurlow

© Crown copyright Met Office Max. temp. at 1 hPa, with warm bias potential solutions control

© Crown copyright Met Office GPSRO+SSMIS Solid: Control Dashed: GPSRO+SSMIS Plots courtesy of Brett Candy and Mike Thurlow

© Crown copyright Met Office GPSRO+SSMIS effect in Antarctica (Jul 2009) – raises stratopause

© Crown copyright Met Office Stratopause bias GPSRO has more influence on 1 hPa level (~47km) bias than at 0.1 hPa (~60 km). SSMIS UAS channels clearly improve the cold bias at 0.1 hPa, but perhaps over-shoot (without careful bias correction/weighting). In October model update plan to use higher BA combined with SSMIS UAS channels (21, 22).

© Crown copyright Met Office Questions and answers

© Crown copyright Met Office High initial 1D-Var cost functions (hence data we reject!) correlate well with tropical convective cloud regions – high mid-troposphere specific humidity. Is R wrong here? Is background model wrong here? Or are obs genuinely poorer quality here? e.g. multipath/tracking errors Monthly average IR imagery

© Crown copyright Met Office Looking at standard deviation of In lower troposphere, does not have the same narrow feature. But ~tropical tropopause height and higher do see increase in std. dev. Could poor representation by model of tropical tropopause + gravity waves play a role? No increase in R at tropical tropopause is included, but perhaps should do for representivity error? Hence stop rejecting data here unnecessarily

© Crown copyright Met Office

Potential future activities Examine quality of Terra SAR-X (GFZ) data for operational usage. Investigate GPSRO impact with new adjoint sensitivity tools. Investigate -ve bias in UT/S of UMKO model – what is GPSRO fighting against (probably aircraft temperatures). Analyse GRAS wave-optics-derived output, when available. More flexible obs errors – rather than latitudinal bands,

© Crown copyright Met Office With scaled-increments ‘fix’: biases still developed in the SH in June Highlights need for extra obs.