Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences

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Comparison of Extended Medium-Range Forecast Skill Between KMA Ensemble, Ocean Coupled Ensemble, and GloSea5

  • Park, Sangwook (Numerical Model Development Division, Korea Meteorological Administration) ;
  • Kim, Dong-Joon (Numerical Model Development Division, Korea Meteorological Administration) ;
  • Lee, Seung-Woo (Numerical Model Development Division, Korea Meteorological Administration) ;
  • Lee, Kie-Woung (Environment Prediction Research Inc.) ;
  • Kim, Jongkhun (Environment Prediction Research Inc.) ;
  • Song, Eun-Ji (Departmet of Atmospheric Sciences, Division of Earth Environmental Systems, Pusan National University) ;
  • Seo, Kyong-Hwan (Departmet of Atmospheric Sciences, Division of Earth Environmental Systems, Pusan National University)
  • Received : 2016.02.01
  • Accepted : 2016.11.01
  • Published : 2017.08.31
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Abstract

This article describes a three way inter-comparison of forecast skill on an extended medium-range time scale using the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) operational ensemble numerical weather prediction (NWP) systems (i.e., atmosphere-only global ensemble prediction system (EPSG) and ocean-atmosphere coupledEPSG) and KMA operational seasonal prediction system, the Global Seasonal forecast system version 5 (GloSea5). The main motivation is to investigate whether the ensemble NWP system can provide advantage over the existing seasonal prediction system for the extended medium-range forecast (30 days) even with putting extra resources in extended integration or coupling with ocean with NWP system. Two types of evaluation statistics are examined: the basic verification statistics - the anomaly correlation and RMSE of 500-hPa geopotential height and 1.5-meter surface temperature for the global and East Asia area, and the other is the Real-time Multivariate Madden and Julian Oscillation (MJO) indices (RMM1 and RMM2) - which is used to examine the MJO prediction skill. The MJO is regarded as a main source of forecast skill in the tropics linked to the mid-latitude weather on monthly time scale. Under limited number of experiment cases, the coupled NWP extends the forecast skill of the NWP by a few more days, and thereafter such forecast skill is overtaken by that of the seasonal prediction system. At present stage, it seems there is little gain from the coupled NWP even though more resources are put into it. Considering this, the best combination of numerical product guidance for operational forecasters for an extended medium-range is extension of the forecast lead time of the current ensemble NWP (EPSG) up to 20 days and use of the seasonal prediction system (GloSea5) forecast thereafter, though there exists a matter of consistency between the two systems.

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Supported by : National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

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