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Strategies for Development of Dynamical Seasonal Prediction (DSP)
System at Operational Centers
Strategies for Development of Dynamical Seasonal Prediction (DSP)
System at Operational Centers
By
Masao Kanamitsu
Climate Research Division
SIO/UCSD
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PrefacePreface
1. Operational vs. Research
2. Statistical vs. Dynamical
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Operational vs. ResearchOperational vs. Research
Operational – Produce useful results now!
– whatever the method is. Research
– Great future potential – Does not produce useful results now
– Take time (and money)
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Operational vs. ResearchOperational vs. Research
Requires balanced thinking. Do not go too much towards one direction.
Think science Promote understanding between managers
and developers
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Statistical/Empirical vs. DynamicalStatistical/Empirical vs. Dynamical
Statistical– Relatively easy and fast– Produces results now– Skill statistically assured– Not much future (statistical limitation)
Dynamical– Difficult– May take time to produce useful results– Skill not assured– Great potential for future
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Current Status of Seasonal Prediction
Current Status of Seasonal Prediction
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Current Status of Statistical/Empirical Methods
Current Status of Statistical/Empirical Methods
Statistical method based on EOF is now well established. Currently, most reliable method.– CCA*
Composites* Trend (persistence)* Extrapolation of phase, amplitude*
– Identification of “modes”.
*) applies to forecast over Taiwan
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Current DSP status (1)Current DSP status (1)
Current products are NOT as useful as we hope for operational seasonal forecasts.
Still the method is not matured It is an investment for future.
5-years? 10-years?
Need to be up-to-date to be competitive with other centers
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Current DSP status (2)Current DSP status (2)
May be useful in particular situations– This is still not demonstrated
Progress in modeling and research may make the DSP as useful tool in a short time.
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Statistical:ANALOGNEURALCCASSA/MEM(LIM)
Dynamical (simple):
OXFORDLDEOSCR/MPIBMRC
Dynamical (2-tier)NCEP
Dynamical (1-tier?)COLA
After Landsea amd Knaff (2000)
Skill m
easured against persistency/clim
atology
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Basic Approach to Seasonal Prediction
Basic Approach to Seasonal Prediction
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Basic approaches to seasonal forecasting
Basic approaches to seasonal forecasting
Phenomenological approach Atmospheric “modes” approach * Specific external forcing approach * Pure empirical approach Dynamical Modeling *
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Phenomenological ApproachPhenomenological Approach
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Phenomenological consideration(what phenomena to predict)
Phenomenological consideration(what phenomena to predict)
Summer monsoon (Meiyu) Winter monsoon (cold surges) Typhoon Subtropical highs
Be aware that our interest is the prediction of “anomaly”
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Application to Prediction- phenomenological -
Application to Prediction- phenomenological -
– Normally does not help making predictions– Help targeting what to predict– Physical understanding of the mechanism helps
what to look and how to model.
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Atmospheric ModesAtmospheric Modes
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Atmospheric modesAtmospheric modes
Decompose/extract typical signal from complex atmospheric patterns.
Convenient tool*
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Consideration from “Modes”Consideration from “Modes”
Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO)* Pacific North America (PNA) pattern* North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) Arctic Oscillation (AO), Annular mode.* Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)* Pacific Japan (PJ) pattern* Many other patterns*
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Examples of various “modes”Examples of various “modes”
PNA* NAO*
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Examples of various modesExamples of various modes
AO
Thompson and Wallace (2000)
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Examples of various modesExamples of various modes
PJ
Nitta (1987)
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Examples of various modesExamples of various modes
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Examples of various modesExamples of various modes
PDO
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Examples of various modesExamples of various modes
MJO
Waliser et al. (2000)
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Kawamura et al., 1996Kawamura et al., 1996
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Application to Prediction- Modes -
Application to Prediction- Modes -
– Use as input/output for statistical method– Composite maps based on modes– Extrapolate phase and amplitude– Physical understanding of the mechanism helps
what to look and how to model
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External ForcingExternal Forcing
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External Forcing (1)External Forcing (1)
Sea Surface Temperature– This is what started DSP– Use as input for statistical method (CCA)– Direct impact in tropics*
Nordeste, Indonesia precipitation,Taiwan(??)
– Remote response ENSO =>PNA Western Pacific (Phillipines) => PJ Indian Ocean dipole
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ENSO Impacts
Halpert and Ropelewski (1992)
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External Forcing (2)External Forcing (2)
Soil moisture– Normally local– Summer season– Delayed SST impact via soil moisture
Snow– Similar to Soil moisture– Delayed effect
Sea-ice Vegetation, urbanization CO2, ozone and other greenhouse gasses
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Application to prediction - External forcing -
Application to prediction - External forcing -
– Use as input in statistical methods– Composite– Key factor for dynamical seasonal forecasts– How to predict external forcing?
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Pure Empirical ApproachPure Empirical Approach
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Pure empirical approach Pure empirical approach
Analog method– Pattern recognition– Constructed analog
Using the behaviors of animals, plants and other natural phenomena.
Lacks scientific basis
Not recommended !!!
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Dynamical ApproachDynamical Approach
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Application to prediction - Dynamical -
Application to prediction - Dynamical -
Based on physical principles Most promising Should be able to predict rare events (in
principle, even events not occurred in history)
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DSP ApproachDSP Approach
Identify sources of predictability Dynamical consistency Signal to noise Systematic error
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Source of seasonal predictability Source of seasonal predictability
SST Soil wetness Snow Sea ice CO2, ozone and other trace gasses for trend Initial conditions, particularly ocean, land
Need for incorporating as many predictability sources as possible into the system.
Discourages simplification.Need for coupled modeling
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Dynamical ConsistencyDynamical Consistency
Two-tier (one-way coupling) One-tier (two-way coupling)
should be one-tier
MJO example
Extra tropical sst example
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Signal and noise (1)Signal and noise (1)
In seasonal forecasts, transient disturbances with the frequency less than about 30 days are considered to be “noise”.
The targets of prediction for short-range and medium-range are noise in seasonal forecast. – Lorenz’s chaos theory
Infinitesimally small difference in initial condition results in very large differences after 2 weeks.
– There is no way to avoid this “noise”. – You need to consider that the highs and lows in the
middle latitudes in real atmosphere is also a “noise”. We describe nature as “One of many realizations”.
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Daily forecast score decay curveDaily forecast score decay curve
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Ensemble spread of precipitation simulation
Ensemble spread of precipitation simulation
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Example of signal to noise ratioExample of signal to noise ratio
Sugi et al (1997)
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Signal and noise (2)Signal and noise (2)
If there is no external forcing, atmospheric mean state is not predictable.
Signal is the pattern that shows up on all the predictions regardless of the “noise”.
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Signal and noise (3)Signal and noise (3)
Why predict “noise”– Middle latitude disturbances are essential component of
general circulation. Transport heat and momentum.
– Low frequency model and difficulties of parameterizing time mean effect of transient disturbances.
– Prediction of individual disturbances need not be accurate, but time mean property of the transient disturbances need to be accurate.
This is in good analogy to cumulus parameterization.
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Signal and noise (4)Signal and noise (4)
Thus, ensemble forecasting is an essential part of the seasonal prediction.– One integration provides only on “realization”
All the seasonal forecasts need to be probabilistic.
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Signal and Noise (5)Signal and Noise (5)
Theory on Seasonal Ensemble forecasting– Sardeshumukh (2000)
Number of ensemble members required Simple mean (order of 20-40) Second moment (order of a few hundred) Skewness (even more)
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Systematic ErrorSystematic Error
Average of many forecasts minus corresponding observation.– Model mean error– Model climatology
Fairly large amplitude– Cannot use the model forecast “as is”
Systematic error correction– Assuming there is no interaction between systematic
error and model dynamics. This is a big assumption!– Built-in statistical correction to dynamical model
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Example of the importance of systematic error correction
Example of the importance of systematic error correction
Kanamitsu et al(2002)
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1st recommendation1st recommendation
Use statistical method as one of the leading methods for operational forecast.– CCA
– Composite
– Extrapolation of “modes”
– Persistency (or trend)
– Other statistical method with some physical basis.
– Do not go into “pure empirical” without any physical basis => my personal opinion.
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2nd recommendation2nd recommendation
Keep on working with dynamical method (never give up).– It will take time.
Construct the system with as little simplification as possible.
Lessons learned from ECMWF experience in Medium Range Forecast
Improve convective parameterization to increase the skill score of precipitation in tropics.
Think ensemble forecast is essential. Adapt distributed memory machine architecture
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3rd recommendation3rd recommendation
Seasonal forecast is still an initial value problem for ocean, land, sea ice and vegetation.– Importance of ocean, land and sea ice data
assimilation system. This is enormous amount of work.
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4rd recommendation4rd recommendation
Try to understand the nature. Identify the phenomena to predict.– Dynamics– Thermo-dynamics– Coupling
Ocean dynamics Ocean thermodynamics
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5th recommendation5th recommendation
Verify, verify, verify Consider probabilistic output post
processing Perform case studies
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Importance of the accuracy or SST forecastImportance of the accuracy or SST forecast
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Importance of the accuracy or SST forecastImportance of the accuracy or SST forecast
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Statistical/Empirical combined with Dynamical methods
Statistical/Empirical combined with Dynamical methods
Correction of dynamical forecasts Using dynamical forecasts as one of the inputs to
statistical methods Statistical prediction of one component in the
coupled system.– Predict SST by statistical method, then use it to drive
atmosphere.– Predict atmospheric “modes” using extrapolation, then
incorporate into atmosphere (this is much more Forces dynamical models to be frozen to obtain
stable statistics. Detrimental to model improvements.
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Recommendation to CWBRecommendation to CWB
Focus on atmospheric component Consider 3-4 month forecast Consider using persistent SST Emphasize downscaling
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