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1 © Crown copyright Met Office High resolution model developments at the Met Office Mike Bush Thanks to Jorge Bornemann, Peter Lean, Alison Eadie, Pete Francis, Martin Young and many others for 31st EWGLAM and 16th SRNWP Annual Meeting 2009 28 th September – 1st October 2009 Athens, Greece

2 © Crown copyright Met Office Talk Outline What is the UKV convective scale model good at ? and what is it not good at ? L70 NAE - better cloud and inversions thanks to improved vertical resolution

3 © Crown copyright Met Office Talk Outline What is the UKV convective scale model good at ? and what is it not good at ? L70 NAE - better cloud and inversions thanks to improved vertical resolution

4 © Crown copyright Met Office On Demand Model 9 Domains 1.Far South West 2.South West 3.South 4.South East 5.Northern Ireland 6.Northern England 7.North Sea Coast 8.Scotland 9.Shetland

5 © Crown copyright Met Office On Demand Model Nested in UK4. 300 x 300 gridboxes, approximately 450 km x 450 km. 1.5 Km gridbox length. 70 levels. Spin-up from UK4 T+1. Forecast length 18 hours. LBC update frequency: 30 min. Available after any main UK4 forecast. Discontinued 1 st August 2009

6 © Crown copyright Met Office UK4 vs UKV model domains 4 Km. 1.5 Km. 4 Km. 1.5 Km. 4 Km. 1.5 Km. 4 Km. 1.5 Km. 4 Km.

7 © Crown copyright Met Office UKV Model Nested in NAE (12 Km gridlength) Variable Resolution. Outer rim 4 Km gridlength Inner area 1.5 Km gridlength Inner area size: 622 gridboxes E-W 810 gridboxesN-S Full area size: 744 gridboxes E-W 928 N-W LBC update frequency: 30 min. 70 vertical levels. Model top: 40000 m. Timestep: 50 sec. Forecast length: 24 hours

8 © Crown copyright Met Office UKV vs UK4 science differences Convection scheme turned off in UKV model CAPE based CAPE timescale in UK4 model - shallow convection is still parametrized Shallow convection partly resolved by UKV dynamics Boundary layer scheme allowed to work the full depth of the model to mitigate instabilities (see poster) 2D Smagorinsky- Lilley turbulence scheme replaces horizontal diffusion Orographic drag off in UKV model

9 © Crown copyright Met Office UK4 CAPE based CAPE timescale

10 © Crown copyright Met Office UKV does well at… Spin up from boundaries Orographically forced cloud/precip Inland penetration of marine showers/clouds Precipitation structure within fronts/line convection Convergence lines from peninsulas Sea breezes

11 © Crown copyright Met Office NAE has shower signal in the right place. Shower spinup 12z 18/06/09

12 © Crown copyright Met Office UKV shows more showers (i.e. less spin up) at W boundary. Shower spinup 12z 18/06/09

13 © Crown copyright Met Office UKV does well at… Spin up from boundaries Orographically forced cloud/precip Inland penetration of marine showers/clouds Precipitation structure within fronts/line convection Convergence lines from peninsulas Sea breezes

14 © Crown copyright Met Office Convection over orography 01/06/09 15Z

15 © Crown copyright Met Office Deep convection initiation RADARUKV

16 © Crown copyright Met Office Ottery St Mary hailstorm 30/10/08

17 © Crown copyright Met Office The exceptional Ottery hailstorm of 30 th October 2008 Pool of anomalously deep cold air transferred south across the U.K. in association with a marked trough extension at upper levels Short wave upper trough developed upstream Low pressure area with occluded front crossed SW England. Low level southerly air was warm and moist First heavy rainfall cell location was determined by local convergence and uplift over Woodbury common Local topography played a significant role by funelling moist air up the Otter Valley

18 © Crown copyright Met Office Analysis chart 30/10/08 00UTC

19 © Crown copyright Met Office Observations and model guidance Actual rainfall accumulations ~200mm, with 25cm of hail falling in 2 hours On Demand model forecast a 3 hour accumulation of 70-80mm in a 40km x 40km square containing Ottery and 80-90mm in a nearby square The UK4 model had nothing in the 40km x 40km square containing Ottery and a 3 hour accumulation of 40-50mm in a nearby square Some MOGREPS-R members indicated heavy precipitation, but 24km resolution limits usefulness

20 © Crown copyright Met Office Ottery Storm. Radar and On Demand Model 01UTC

21 © Crown copyright Met Office Ottery Storm. Radar and On Demand Model 02UTC

22 © Crown copyright Met Office UKV does well at… Spin up from boundaries Orographically forced cloud/precip Inland penetration of marine showers/clouds Precipitation structure within fronts/line convection Convergence lines from peninsulas Sea breezes

23 © Crown copyright Met Office North Sea Wintry Showers Inland penetration of showers is well represented.

24 © Crown copyright Met Office UKV does well at… Spin up from boundaries Orographically forced precip/cloud Inland penetration of marine showers/clouds Precipitation structure within fronts/line convection Convergence lines from peninsulas Sea breezes

25 © Crown copyright Met Office Line convection 08/09/09 17Z

26 © Crown copyright Met Office Line convection 08/09/09 17Z

27 © Crown copyright Met Office UKV does well at… Spin up from boundaries Orographically forced precip/cloud Inland penetration of marine showers/clouds Precipitation structure within fronts/line convection Convergence lines from peninsulas Sea breezes

28 © Crown copyright Met Office UKV ppn didn’t develop soon enough, but positioning is well handled Convergence line 23/07/09 15Z

29 © Crown copyright Met Office Convergence line 23/07/09 15Z

30 © Crown copyright Met Office UKV does well at… Spin up from boundaries Orographically forced precip/cloud Inland penetration of marine showers/clouds Precipitation structure within fronts/line convection Convergence lines from peninsulas Sea breezes

31 © Crown copyright Met Office Shallow cumulus over land 24/06/09 13Z Predictability arising from sea breezes and orography Brown shading indicates low cloud

32 © Crown copyright Met Office Sea breeze and temperatures 19/08/09 Sea breeze moves inland through the afternoon

33 © Crown copyright Met Office UKV doesn’t do so well at… “Imported” convection (such as an MCS) that has naturally low predictability and is often poorly handled by the driving model. Convection driven by upper level forcing Stratocumulus unless you have data assimilation

34 © Crown copyright Met Office 25/05/09 18Z – UK4 vs UKV

35 © Crown copyright Met Office 25/05/09 21Z – UK4 vs UKV

36 © Crown copyright Met Office 26/05/09 00Z – UK4 vs UKV

37 © Crown copyright Met Office UKV doesn’t do so well at… “Imported” convection (such as an MCS) that has naturally low predictability and is often poorly handled by the driving model. Convection driven by upper level forcing Stratocumulus unless you have data assimilation

38 © Crown copyright Met Office 15/09/09 18Z radar and wind

39 © Crown copyright Met Office 15/09/09 18Z upper level forcing

40 © Crown copyright Met Office 15/09/09 case Upper vortex over near continent Occluded warm plume wrapped around northern flank Profile moist in depth and neutrally stratified Modest CAPE and updraught/downdraught strengths Efficient rainfall production as air parcels stay in cloud for a long time and original convergence zones are not destroyed by downdraughts Lack of surface convergence

41 © Crown copyright Met Office 15/09/09 case Successive UKV (and also UK4) runs seriously underestimated the intensity of the rainfall band 6hr rainfall totals to 21Z included 47mm at S Farnborough, 41mm at Odiham and 20mm at London W/C. Max hourly rates were 16 mm/hr – 20 mm/hr UKV had maximum rates of 8mm-16mm per hour and maximum 6hr accumulations of 16mm - 32mm

42 © Crown copyright Met Office 15/09/09 18Z UK4 vs UKV (no DA) vs UKV with DA

43 © Crown copyright Met Office 6 hourly accum from different UKV runs

44 © Crown copyright Met Office UKV doesn’t do so well at… “Imported” convection (such as an MCS) that has naturally low predictability and is often poorly handled by the driving model. Convection driven by upper level forcing Stratocumulus unless you have data assimilation

45 © Crown copyright Met Office Low cloud 18/09/09 06UTC UK4 vs UKV (no DA) vs UKV with DA

46 © Crown copyright Met Office MODIS image 18/09/09 1056UTC

47 © Crown copyright Met Office Low cloud 18/09/09 11UTC UK4 vs UKV (no DA) vs UKV with DA

48 © Crown copyright Met Office UKV cloud 17/08/09 11UTC Mesoscale detail in UKV forecast?

49 © Crown copyright Met Office Talk Outline What is the UKV convective scale model good at ? and what is it not good at ? L70 NAE - better cloud and inversions thanks to improved vertical resolution

50 © Crown copyright Met Office L70 compared with L38 L70 has 21 levels in the boundary layer (bottom 3km) compared to 13 levels in L38. The greatest reduction in layer thicknesses of L70 versus L38 is at 10km where the resolution goes from 1km (L38) to 500m (L70). Lowest model level unchanged at 10m for u and v winds and 20m for theta L70 lid at 80km compared to 40km for L38.

51 © Crown copyright Met Office Cloud cover verification from Parallel Suite

52 © Crown copyright Met Office Cloud cover verification from Parallel Suite

53 © Crown copyright Met Office Cloud cover at T+0

54 © Crown copyright Met Office Model Assessment and emphasis NAE low cloud in initial conditions is even worse than background, with most of the British Isles cloud free (Eddy Carroll, 24/12/08). Fields modified again to increase cloud cover in a major way (Eddy Carroll, 25/12/08). 06Z NAE continues to struggle with low cloud assimilation across parts of the UK (Andy Page, 26/12/08).

55 © Crown copyright Met Office ASXX 00Z 25/12/08

56 © Crown copyright Met Office IR satellite image 00Z 25/12/08

57 © Crown copyright Met Office Derived cloud mask 00Z 25/12/08

58 © Crown copyright Met Office Low cloud L38, L70 and T+0 diff 00Z 25/12/08

59 © Crown copyright Met Office L70 – L38 T15 difference at T+00

60 © Crown copyright Met Office Screen Temperature at T+0

61 © Crown copyright Met Office Screen Temperature at T+24

62 © Crown copyright Met Office Lerwick (Shetland) 00Z 25/12/08

63 © Crown copyright Met Office Albemarle (NE England) 00Z 25/12/08

64 © Crown copyright Met Office Castor Bay (N Ireland) 00Z 25/12/08

65 © Crown copyright Met Office Valentia (Rep Ireland) 00Z 25/12/08

66 © Crown copyright Met Office Model inversion comparison algorithm (Peter Lean) L38 and L70 model level data are read in Data regridded to a common fine scale (10m) vertical grid Diagnoses columns where an inversion is present An inversion is defined as being a 2 degree temperature rise within 200m of base and between 470m and 3000m If an inversion is present in both runs, then the inversions in both L38 and L70 are averaged relative to the diagnosed inversion base This removes the smoothing that occurs if inversions at many different locations (and therefore with different heights) are just simply averaged

67 © Crown copyright Met Office Averaged model profiles 00Z 25/12/08

68 © Crown copyright Met Office Model inversions >2 degrees 00Z 25/12/08

69 © Crown copyright Met Office L70 1.6 NAE L70 v L38 forecast-only cases Area covered by inversions: More inversions in L70 L38 1.0 both 0.75

70 © Crown copyright Met Office Guidance issued to Foreign and Commonwealth Office 10UTC 23/09/09 Highest peak model 48 hour accumulation was 339mm!

71 © Crown copyright Met Office NAE 12 UTC run 23/09/09 6 hourly accumulation from 12UTC to 18UTC Pantelleria 201mm 12 hours to 18UTC 23rd Lampedusa 162mm 12 hours to 06 UTC 24th Model ppn accumulations Black = 64 -128mm White = >128mm Peak value was 206mm

72 © Crown copyright Met Office Questions and answers

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