Impact of Assimilating Adaptively Thinned AIRS Cloud-Cleared Radiances on the Analysis of Polar Lows and Mediterranean Sea Tropical-Like Cyclone in a Global Modeling and Data Assimilation Framework

• Published in: Weather and forecasting Vol. 37; no. 7; pp. 1117 - 1134
• Main Authors: Ganeshan, Manisha, Reale, Oreste, McGrath-Spangler, Erica, Boukachaba, Niama
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Goddard Space Flight Center American Meteorological Society 01.07.2022
• Subjects: Analysis; Atmospheric Infrared Sounder; Atmospheric models; Cyclogenesis; Cyclones; Data assimilation; Data collection; Density; Earth Observing System (EOS); Experiments; Geosciences (General); Hurricanes; Impact analysis; Infrared analysis; Mesoscale phenomena; Methods; Modelling; Polar lows; Radiance; Representations; Storms; Thinning; Tropical climate; Tropical cyclones; Tropical environments; Velocity; Velocity gradient; Velocity gradients; Mediterranean Sea; Global Modeling; Tropical Cyclones (tcs)

Polar lows, and mesoscale convective cyclones bearing resemblance to tropical cyclones but originating outside of the tropics, are storms that are challenging to represent accurately in global analyses and models because of their small size, rapid growth at subsynoptic scales, occurrence in data poo...