Forecasting/Nowcasting for DC3: (DC3 Workshop 21-22 February, 2012) Morris Weisman NCAR/NESL/MMM.

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Forecasting/Nowcasting for DC3: (DC3 Workshop February, 2012) Morris Weisman NCAR/NESL/MMM

Also: A statistical-based decision making tool: Hans Verlinde and Arthur Small ….a host of high-resolution explicit convective forecasts and chemical forecasts will be available….

WRF-ARW Forecasts for DC3: 01 May-30 June DART: *50 members at 15 km grid resolution *Member with closest normalized fit to ensemble mean selected for IC/BC for 3 km forecast *GFS forecast BC for outer domain *MYJ PBL, Thompson Micro. *48 h 3 km forecasts initialized at 00 and 12 UTC using DART analyses

Assimilated Observation Types 12th WRF User's Workshop4 MADIS sourced: Radiosonde U,V,T,Td,Alt. METAR U,V,T,Td,Alt. MARINE U,V,T,Td,Alt. ACARS U,V,T,Td SSEC sourced: SAT cloud track winds: U,V COSMIC sourced: GPS occultation ~ 40k obs, 4x daily

3 km ARW Forecast: 06/05/08 ARW ReflectivityObserved Reflectivity

3 km ARW Forecast: 04/26/11 ARW ReflectivityObserved Reflectivity

Boundary Layer (BL) tracer = 1 between surface and PBL height every time step BL tracer (color) vertical cross section PBL height (thick black line) 2200 May 11, 2011 WRF

Two types of tracers 1)Passive tracer 2)Decaying tracer with time scale of 1 day  Age of Air 8 Tracers Used: 1 Universal BL Tracer 2 Colorado BL tracers 2 Oklahoma BL tracers 2 Alabama BL tracers 1 Lightning NOx tracer

Model radar reflectivity (dBZ) 13 UTC 20 May (08 CDT) Two types of tracers 1)Passive tracer 2)Decaying tracer with time scale of 1 day 19 UTC 20 May (14 CDT) (initialized 00 UTC)

Lightning NO x tracer – Lightning flashes predicted by maximum updraft speed (Price and Rind, 1992) within a “tile” of the domain – Intracloud to cloud-to-ground flash ratio is based on climatology (Boccippio et al., 2001) – Location of NO source is within 20 dBZ region, following DeCaria et al. (2000) vertical distribution – Produce 500moles NO/flash – Transported by winds – First-order decay rate IC to CG Ratio (Boccippio et al., 2001) Vertical Distribution of NO Source (DeCaria et al., 2000) Kristin Cummings (UMD), Ken Pickering (NASA/GSFC), Mary Barth (NCAR)

Example of LNO x Tracer Forecast from DC3 Test Flights LNO x tracer provides information about LNO x plume: Magnitude Location Depth LNO x tracer output will be used in flight planning

Estimate of where air goes from NE Colorado region June 1-8, 2011 analyzed Colors are dates; numbers are hour since start of simulation …..via tracking maximum boundary layer tracer at 10 km

Predictability of Convective Storms: 24 h - 3 km WRF-ARW Forecast Observed Radar What can we hope for in DC3? *24-36 h forecasts: +/- 2 hrs, +/- 150 km *6-18 h forecasts: just a bit better? (need good nowcasting support!!!!!!)

Widespread Convection: easier to forecast, more difficult to fly Isolated Convection: easy to fly, difficult to forecast

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05/24/ UTC *Need to work through a variety of forecast/weather scenarios to help with decision-making

DC3 Forecast/Nowcast Plans: Lead Forecasters: Morris Weisman, Craig Schwartz (May 22-June 10) Regional Forecasters: Don Burgess (OK), Russ Schumacher (CSU), Lamont Bain (AL) Nowcasting Team (Salina): monitors weather and provide updates/guidance for aircraft/ground crew operations as needed…works directly with Operations Director, PI’s, etc. Oklahoma/Texas: Pat Hyland, Eric Bruning/Stephanie Weiss, Patrick Marsh Alabama: ? Colorado: ? Forecasting Team: provides day 1, 2, 3… forecast guidance for DC3 planning/decision making….presents morning briefing/afternoon updates etc.

Announce plans ?-8:20 AM Work on forecast for each DC3 region Forecasting report to the PI group 08:20-08:50 Daily planning meeting Earliest take off time DC3 Daily schedule for active storm in Oklahoma flight day no flight the following day Instrument/aircraft preparation for flight Instrument status summary; Gather any add’l info Update pilots, mission scientists and coordinators on weather Nowcasting 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 Nowcasting Flight Instrument status uploaded Post flight debriefing with weather update Update weather forecast CDT 07:00 08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 Sunset for OKC / Lubbock Sunrise for OKC / Lubbock storm sampling transit

Summary: We need additional nowcast support in Salina…….

05/25/ UTC 1 km Observed Reflectivity NCAR 3 km DART Thomp NSSL 4 km NAM WSM6 24 h Forecasts

8 tracers included tracers 2,3 4,5 6,7 2 Colorado BL tracers 2 Oklahoma BL tracers 2 Alabama BL tracers Two types of tracers 1)Passive tracer 2)Decaying tracer with time scale of 1 day  Age of Air Model radar reflectivity (dBZ) 13 UTC 20 May (08 CDT)

The Impact of WRF-DART Analyses on 3 km Explicit Convective Forecasts During the 2011 Spring Season M. Weisman, W. Wang, K. Manning, G. Romine; NCAR/MMM (12th WRF Workshop: June ) Radar 22 UTC3 km ARW 4 h Forecast Tornado Outbreak: 04/27/11

Lightning NO x (LNO x ) Tracer for the DC3 Cloud-Resolved WRF Forecasts Kristin Cummings (UMD), Ken Pickering (NASA/GSFC), Mary Barth (NCAR) Three flash rate parameterization schemes (FRPS) running on-line in NCAR WRF cloud-resolving (3-km resolution) forecast model: Estimate total flash rates from predicted storm variables: Cloud-top height, maximum vertical velocity, updraft volume Use IC/CG ratios based on Boccippio et al. (2001) climatology One FRPS will be selected for use in injecting LNOx into the model Assumes 500 moles NO per IC and CG flash (Ott et al., 2010) Assumes Gaussian vertical distributions of IC (bimodal) and CG (single mode) NO production based on typical lightning flash channel distributions. Lightning channels set to maximize at -15C (CG and IC) and -45C (IC). Horizontal placement of LNOx within the 20 dBZ contour LNOx decay based on altitude-dependent e-folding lifetimes (ranging from 1 day in PBL to 5 days in upper troposphere)

Announce plans ?-6:20 AM Work on forecast for each DC3 region Forecasting report to the PI group 06:20-06:50 Daily planning meeting Earliest take off time DC3 Daily schedule for active storm in Alabama flight day no flight the following day Instrument/aircraft preparation for flight Instrument status summary; Gather any add’l info Update pilots, mission scientists and coordinators on weather Nowcasting 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 Nowcasting Flight Instrument status uploaded Post flight debriefing with weather update Update weather forecast CDT 05:00 06:00 07:00 08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 Sunset for Huntsville / Salina Sunrise for Huntsville storm sampling transit