TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement performance assessment of future space-borne doppler wind lidar for numerical weather prediction
AU - Ishii, Shoken
AU - Okamoto, Kozo
AU - Baron, Philippe
AU - Kubota, Takuji
AU - Satoh, Yohei
AU - Sakaizawa, Daisuke
AU - Ishibashi, Toshiyuki
AU - Tanaka, Taichu Y.
AU - Yamashita, Koji
AU - Ochiai, Satoshi
AU - Gamo, Kyoka
AU - Yasui, Motoaki
AU - Oki, Riko
AU - Satoh, Masaki
AU - Iwasaki, Toshiki
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to anonymous reviewers for their valuable and helpful comments and suggestions on earlier versions of the manuscript. This research was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 15K06129 and 15K05293.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Global wind profile observation is important to improve initial conditions for numerical weather prediction (NWP), general circulation model, and various other meteorological studies. A spaceborne Doppler wind lidar (DWL) is one of promising remote sensing techniques for global wind measurement. We describe a study based on simulated satellite measurements for assessing the measurement performances of a Japanese coherent DWL. Global simulations are performed using pseudo-truth atmospheric model of an observing system simulation experiment (OSSE) conducted using the global NWP system of the Japan Meteorological Agency. Wind profile retrieval simulations have been performed for 1 month (August, 2010) and the results show that the percentage of good quality estimates is 40% below 8 km, and it decreases to 10% at 8-20 km in the southern hemisphere and is 20-50% in the northern hemisphere. Expected line-of-sight wind speed errors for good quality estimates are 0.5 m s-1 below 8 km and 1.1 m s-1 at 8-20 km. In the future, the simulated observations will be used in the OSSE to quantitatively infer the potential impacts on NWP accuracy. To illustrate such analysis, results are shown from an initial validation test using a simple wind measurement model instead of the realistic DWL simulations.
AB - Global wind profile observation is important to improve initial conditions for numerical weather prediction (NWP), general circulation model, and various other meteorological studies. A spaceborne Doppler wind lidar (DWL) is one of promising remote sensing techniques for global wind measurement. We describe a study based on simulated satellite measurements for assessing the measurement performances of a Japanese coherent DWL. Global simulations are performed using pseudo-truth atmospheric model of an observing system simulation experiment (OSSE) conducted using the global NWP system of the Japan Meteorological Agency. Wind profile retrieval simulations have been performed for 1 month (August, 2010) and the results show that the percentage of good quality estimates is 40% below 8 km, and it decreases to 10% at 8-20 km in the southern hemisphere and is 20-50% in the northern hemisphere. Expected line-of-sight wind speed errors for good quality estimates are 0.5 m s-1 below 8 km and 1.1 m s-1 at 8-20 km. In the future, the simulated observations will be used in the OSSE to quantitatively infer the potential impacts on NWP accuracy. To illustrate such analysis, results are shown from an initial validation test using a simple wind measurement model instead of the realistic DWL simulations.
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U2 - 10.2151/sola.2016-012
DO - 10.2151/sola.2016-012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84960428403
VL - 12
SP - 55
EP - 59
JO - Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere
JF - Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere
SN - 1349-6476
IS - 1
ER -