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Development of the Atomated Prediction System for Seasonal Tropical Cyclone Activity over the Western North Pacific and its Evaluation for Early Predictability

북서태평양 태풍 진로의 계절예측시스템 자동화 구축 및 조기 예측성의 검증

  • Jin, Chun-Sil (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • Ho, Chang-Hoi (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • Park, Doo-Sun R. (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • Choi, Woosuk (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kim, Dasol (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Jong-Ho (National Typhoon Center, Korea Meteorological Administration) ;
  • Chang, Ki-Ho (National Typhoon Center, Korea Meteorological Administration) ;
  • Kang, Ki-Ryong (National Typhoon Center, Korea Meteorological Administration)
  • Received : 2013.11.22
  • Accepted : 2013.12.23
  • Published : 2014.03.31

Abstract

The automated prediction system for seasonal tropical cyclone (TC) activity is established at the National Typhoon Center of the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) to provide effective operation and control of the system for user who lacks knowledge of the system. For automation of the system, two procedures which include subjective decisions by user are performed in advance, and their output data are provided as input data. To provide the capability to understand the operational processes for operational user, the input and output data are summarized with each process, and the directory structure is reconstructed following KMA's standard. We introduce a user interface using namelist input parameters to effectively control operational conditions which is fixed or should be manually set in the previous version of the prediction system. To operationally use early prediction which become available through the automation, its performances are evaluated according to initial condition dates. As a result, high correlations between the observed and predicted TC counts are kept for all track clusters even though advancing the initial condition date from May to January.

계절예측시스템의 배경 지식이 부족한 사용자가 시스템을 효율적으로 구동하고 조절할 수 있도록 자동화에 최적화된 시스템을 기상청 국가태풍센터에 구축하였다. 기존 예측시스템에서 사용자의 주관이 포함되어 자동화 구축에 제약을 주는 군집분류와 예측인자 선정 과정은 미리 수행되고, 그 출력자료는 입력자료로서 제공된다. 시스템을 이해하고 운용하는데 도움을 주기 위해 기상청 규격에 따라 디렉토리 구조를 재구성하고, 해당 디렉토리에 포함되어 있는 입력자료와 소스코드를 이용해 산출되는 출력자료를 정리하였다. 또한 기존 예측시스템에서 고정되어 있거나 수동으로 설정해야 하는 구동조건을 효과적으로 조절하기 위해 네임리스트를 이용한 사용자인터페이스를 추가하여 자동화 시스템을 최적화하였다. 이러한 자동화 시스템에 의해 기술적으로 가능해진 조기예측의 성능을 검증한 결과, 예측시점을 5월에서 1월까지 앞당겨도 모든 진로유형에서 높은 예측성능이 유지되었다. 이처럼, 조기예측이 가능해진 태풍진로 계절예측시스템은 국가태풍센터의 현업예보뿐만 아니라 태풍계절예측 분야의 연구자에게도 매우 유익할 것으로 기대되고, 본 기술노트는 효율적인 예측시스템 운영을 위한 기술적 지침서로 활용될 것이다.

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