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- Title
Evaluation of the COSMO model (v5.1) in polarimetric radar space – impact of uncertainties in model microphysics, retrievals and forward operators.
- Authors
Shrestha, Prabhakar; Mendrok, Jana; Pejcic, Velibor; Trömel, Silke; Blahak, Ulrich; Carlin, Jacob T.
- Abstract
Sensitivity experiments with a numerical weather prediction (NWP) model and polarimetric radar forward operator (FO) are conducted for a long-duration stratiform event over northwestern Germany to evaluate uncertainties in the partitioning of the ice water content and assumptions of hydrometeor scattering properties in the NWP model and FO, respectively. Polarimetric observations from X-band radar and retrievals of hydrometeor classifications are used for comparison with the multiple experiments in radar and model space. Modifying the critical diameter of particles for ice-to-snow conversion by aggregation (Dice) and the threshold temperature responsible for graupel production by riming (Tgr), was found to improve the synthetic polarimetric moments and simulated hydrometeor population, while keeping the difference in surface precipitation statistically insignificant at model resolvable grid scales. However, the model still exhibited a low bias (lower magnitude than observation) in simulated polarimetric moments at lower levels above the melting layer (- 3 to - 13 ∘ C) where snow was found to dominate. This necessitates further research into the missing microphysical processes in these lower levels (e.g. fragmentation due to ice–ice collisions) and use of more reliable snow-scattering models to draw valid conclusions.
- Subjects
GERMANY; MICROPHYSICS; NUMERICAL weather forecasting; RADAR; POLARIMETRY; SYNTHETIC aperture radar; MULTIPLE comparisons (Statistics)
- Publication
Geoscientific Model Development, 2022, Vol 15, Issue 1, p291
- ISSN
1991-959X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/gmd-15-291-2022