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COSMO General Meeting – Moscow 06-10 Sept 2010

Some results from operational verification in Italy

Angela Celozzi - Federico GrazziniMassimo Milelli - Elena Oberto

Adriano Raspanti - Maria Stefania Tesini

COSMO General Meeting – Moscow 06-10 Sept 2010

Verification

CROSS MODEL COSMOME vs ECMWF CROSS MODEL COSMOI7 vs ECMWF CROSS MODEL COSMOME vs COSMOIT COSMOME –Upper Air COSMOI7 – Upper Air (OBS and

Analysis) CONDITIONAL VERIFICATIONS Long Term and Seasonal Precipitation

COSMO General Meeting – Moscow 06-10 Sept 2010

Verification

CROSS MODEL COSMOME vs ECMWF CROSS MODEL ECMWF vs COSMOI7 CROSS MODEL COSMOME vs COSMOIT COSMOME –Upper Air COSMOI7 – Upper Air CONDITIONAL VERIFICATIONS Long Term and Seasonal Precipitation

COSMO General Meeting – Moscow 06-10 Sept 2010

COSMOME vs ECMWF Temperature

SON

JJA

MAM

DJF

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COSMOME vs ECMWF Dew Point Temperature

SON

JJA

MAM

DJF

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COSMOME vs ECMWF Mean Sea Level Pressure

SON

JJA

MAM

DJF

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COSMOME vs ECMWF Total Cloud Cover

SON

JJA

MAM

DJF

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COSMOME vs ECMWF Wind Speed

SON

JJA

MAM

DJF

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Verification

CROSS MODEL COSMOME vs ECMWF CROSS MODEL ECMWF vs COSMOI7 CROSS MODEL COSMOME vs COSMOIT COSMOME –Upper Air COSMOI7 – Upper Air CONDITIONAL VERIFICATIONS Long Term and Seasonal Precipitation

COSMO General Meeting – Moscow 06-10 Sept 2010

COSMOI7 vs ECMWF Dew Point Temperature

SON

JJA

MAM

DJF

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COSMOI7 vs ECMWF Mean Sea Level Pressure

SON

JJA

MAM

DJF

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COSMOI7 vs ECMWF Wind Speed

SON

JJA

MAM

DJF

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COSMOI7 vs ECMWF Total Cloud Cover

SON

JJA

MAM

DJF

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Verification

CROSS MODEL COSMOME vs ECMWF CROSS MODEL ECMWF vs COSMOI7 CROSS MODEL COSMOME vs COSMOIT COSMOME –Upper Air COSMOI7 – Upper Air CONDITIONAL VERIFICATIONS Long Term and Seasonal Precipitation

COSMO General Meeting – Moscow 06-10 Sept 2010

TemperatureCOSMOME vs COSMOIT

SON

JJA

MAM

DJF

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Mean Sea Level PressureCOSMOME vs COSMOIT

SON

JJA

MAM

DJF

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Dew PointTemperatureCOSMOME vs COSMOIT

SON

JJA

MAM

DJF

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Total Cloud CoverCOSMOME vs COSMOIT

SON

JJA

MAM

DJF

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Wind SpeedCOSMOME vs COSMOIT

SON

JJA

MAM

DJF

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Conclusion

• COSMO - ME generally better than IFS, except MSLP

• COSMO – I7 better or almost the same than IFS

• Comparison COSMO-ME and COSMO-IT shows improvements for High-Res.

COSMO General Meeting – Moscow 06-10 Sept 2010

Verification

CROSS MODEL COSMOME vs COSMOIT CROSS MODEL COSMOME vs ECMWF CROSS MODEL ECMWF vs COSMOI7 COSMOME – Upper Air COSMOI7 – Upper Air CONDITIONAL VERIFICATIONS Long Term and Seasonal Precipitation

COSMO General Meeting – Moscow 06-10 Sept 2010

COSMOME –Upper AirTemperature

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COSMOME –Upper AirWind Speed

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Verification

CROSS MODEL COSMOME vs COSMOIT CROSS MODEL COSMOME vs ECMWF CROSS MODEL ECMWF vs COSMOI7 COSMOME –UpperAir COSMOI7 – Upper Air CONDITIONAL VERIFICATIONS Long Term and Seasonal Precipitation

COSMO General Meeting – Moscow 06-10 Sept 2010

COSMOI7 –Upper Air Temperature

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COSMOI7 –Upper AirWind Speed

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COSMO I7 COSMO BackUp ECMWF

MSL FC+48 – Each model is verified against its own analysis

Shaded contouring every 0.5 hPa, starting from 0.5. Red and blue lines representPositive/Negative bias, every 0.5 hPa

Spatial distribution of mean absolute error (MAE), computed over MAM 2010

UPPER-AIR (against analysis)

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Forecast Step

MAE growth with forecast step, computed over COSMOI7 domainSpring 2010 (MAM 2010) – All models and analyses are interpolated onA regular grid at 0.25 * 0.25 deg of h-resolution. Everyone against its own analysis. MSL

UPPER-AIR (against analysis)

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Spatial distribution of mean absolute error (MAE), computed over MAM 2010

T850 FC+48 – Each model is verified against its own analysis

Shaded contouring every 0.5 C°, starting from 0.5. Red and blue lines representPositive/Negative bias, every 0.5 C°

COSMO I7 COSMO BackUp ECMWF

UPPER-AIR (against analysis)

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MAE growth with forecast step, computed over COSMOI7 domainSpring 2010 (MAM 2010) – All models and analyses are interpolated onA regular grid at 0.25 * 0.25 deg of h-resolution. Everyone against its own analysis. Z 700 hPa

UPPER-AIR (against analysis)

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Conclusion

• COSMO – ME and COSMO-I7 have a general good result in upper air Verification

• COSMO-ME seems better, but improvement from MAM for COSMO-I7 (bug in AOF file until march)

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Verification

CROSS MODEL COSMOME vs COSMOIT CROSS MODEL COSMOME vs ECMWF CROSS MODEL ECMWF vs COSMOI7 COSMOME –Upper Air COSMOI7 – Upper Air CONDITIONAL VERIFICATIONS Long Term and Seasonal Precipitation

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Conditional Verification Temp – TCC obs <=35%

Worse behaviour for all the seasonsCompare to no condition model

SON

MAM

DJF

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Conditional Verification Temp – TCC obs >=75%

SON

MAM

DJF

Better behaviour for all the seasonsCompare to no condition model

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Conditional Verification MSLP – MSLP >=mean

SON

MAM

DJF

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Conditional Verification Tdew – Wind Speed (Obs) <=2 m/s

SON

MAM

DJF

Almost indifferent to the condition in obs space

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Conditional Verification Tdew – Wind Speed (fcs) <=2 m/s

SON

MAM

DJF

Worse behaviour for all the seasonsIn fcs space

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Conditional Verification

Temp – Prec +06 <= 0,5 Temp – Prec +06 <=10

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Conditional VerificationTemp – MSLP >=mean

SON

MAM

DJF

Worse behaviour in DJF for RMSESimilar fo other seasons

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Conditional VerificationTemp – MSLP <=mean

SON

MAM

DJF

General better behaviour for all theSeasons compare to NC

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Conclusion

• Comparison between NC and Cond verification seems effective in most of the cases

• A standard set of Conditions should be decided by WG5 and produce on regular basis

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Verification

CROSS MODEL COSMOME vs COSMOIT CROSS MODEL COSMOME vs ECMWF CROSS MODEL ECMWF vs COSMOI7 COSMOME –Upper Air COSMOI7 – Upper Air CONDITIONAL VERIFICATIONS Long Term and Seasonal Precipitation

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Seasonal trend - low thresholds• All the versions present a seasonal cycle with an overestimation during summertime (except COSMO-7 and I2)• COSMO-7 and I2 underestimate• Overestimation error decreases in D+2 (spin-up effect vanished)

QPF verification of the 4 model versions at 7 km res. (COSMO-I7, COSMO-7, COSMO-EU, COSMO-ME) with the 2 model versions at 2.8 km res. (COSMO-I2, COSMO-IT)Dataset: high resolution network of rain gauges coming from COSMO dataset and Civil Protection Department 1300 stationsMethod: 24h/6h averaged cumulated precipitation value over 90 meteo-hydrological basins

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• Very light improvement trend

• Seasonal error cycle: lower ets during winter and summertime

• no significant differences between D+1 and D+2

• Last winter (very snowy particularly in Northern Italy): low ets value (D+1 and D+2) model error or lack of representativeness of the rain gauges over the plain during snowfall ?

Seasonal trend - low thresholds

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• Very light improvement trend

• Seasonal cycle with more false alarms in summertime (particularly for I7)

• no significant differences between D+1 and D+2

Seasonal trend - low thresholds

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• Quite stationary during last seasons

• I2 has very low values during summer

• no significant differences between D+1 and D+2

Seasonal trend - low thresholds

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Driving model comparison: ECMWF/COSMO-ME/COSMO-IT, low thresholds

• ECMWF tendency to forecast low rainfall amounts big overestimation, big false alarms, very low ets, quite good pod

• Better prediction for COSMO-models (no strong differences between ME and IT)

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• ECMWF tendency to forecast low rainfall amounts big overestimation, big false alarms, very low ets, quite good pod

• Better prediction for COSMO-models BUT bad performance during summertime

Driving model comparison: ECMWF/COSMO-ME/COSMO-IT, low thresholds

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• Slight bias reduction during latest seasons

• Last winter: all the versions overestimate (probably due to lack of representativeness of the rain gauges over the plain during snowfall)

• Strong COSMO-7 underestimation BUT slight improvement during latest seasons

Seasonal trend - high thresholds

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• Low values during summertime

• In general, quite stationary error since son2008 up to now

• All the versions present a jump around son2008: ets increases from 0.2-0.4 up to 0.3-0.5 (cosmo-I7: son2008 introduction of 4.3 version with new T2m diagnostic)

• Skill decreases with forecast time

Seasonal trend - high thresholds

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Seasonal trend - high thresholds

• Slight far reduction during last two years BUT high values during summer2009 and winter 2010 (probably due to lack of representativeness of the rain gauges over the plain during snowfall)

• Small far increase last spring

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• Low probability of detection during intense convective events

• It is noticeable the improvement since son2008 BUT a subsequent worsening during 2009 and the first half of 2010

• Skill decreases with forecast time

Seasonal trend - high thresholds

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• ECMWF difficulty to forecast high rainfall amounts bias around 1 BUT big false alarms, very low ets and pod

• Better prediction for COSMO-models

Driving model comparison: ECMWF/COSMO-ME/COSMO-IT, high thresholds

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• ECMWF difficulty to forecast high rainfall amounts bias around 1 BUT big false alarms, very low ets and pod

• Better prediction for COSMO-models

Driving model comparison: ECMWF/COSMO-ME/COSMO-IT, high thresholds

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Diurnal cycle - low thresholds

• Little initial spin-up (especially for I7 and I2)

• No strong performance differences among the versions

• Slight diurnal cycle

• Slight worsening with forecast time

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Diurnal cycle - high thresholds

• Little initial spin-up vanished with threshold increasing

• No strong performance differences among the versions except COSMO-7 underestimation

• Pronounced worsening with forecast time

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COSMO-7 COSMO-I7 COSMO-ME

COSMO-EU COSMO-I2 COSMO-IT

Bias, 10mm/24h

200812-201005

• Systematic overestimation over Alpine areas, especially in the western part and in Veneto/Trentino-Alto Adige (incorrect representation of flow interaction with alpine chain during westerlies and north-easterlies ?)

• COSMO-7 underestimates especially in southern Italy (border of the domain ?)

• COSMO-I7 overestimates the Adriatic areas (especially during north-easterly flow forecasters experience)

• COSMO-I2 underestimates, COSMO-IT overestimates

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Far, 10mm/24h

200812-201005

COSMO-7 COSMO-I7 COSMO-ME

COSMO-EU COSMO-I2 COSMO-IT

• More false alarms over Sardinia and Alpine areas, especially in the western part and in Veneto/Trentino-Alto Adige (incorrect representation of flow interaction with alpine chain during westerlies and north-easterlies ?)

• More false alarms for COSMO-I7 (and the other ones) over the Adriatic areas (especially during north-easterly flow forecasters experience)

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Relative error %, SON 2009

COSMO-7 COSMO-I7 COSMO-ME

COSMO-EU COSMO-I2 COSMO-IT

• Too precipitation amount over Alpine areas, especially in the western part and in Veneto/Trentino-Alto Adige (incorrect representation of flow interaction with alpine chain during westerlies and north-easterlies ?)

• Few QPF for COSMO-7, COSMO-I2 and COSMO-IT

• Quite good QPF for COSMO-I7, COSMO-ME and COSMO-EU

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Relative error %, DJF 2010

COSMO-7 COSMO-I7 COSMO-ME

COSMO-EU COSMO-I2 COSMO-IT

• Few precipitation amount (all the versions except COSMO-I2) in the Padana Plain: very snowy winter also in plain areas where there are no heated rain gauges lack of representativeness

• Few QPF for COSMO-7 in southern Italy

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Relative error %, MAM 2010

COSMO-7 COSMO-I7 COSMO-ME

COSMO-EU COSMO-I2 COSMO-IT

• Too precipitation amount over Alpine areas, especially in the western part and in Veneto/Trentino-Alto Adige (incorrect representation of flow interaction with alpine chain during westerlies and north-easterlies ?)

• Few QPF for COSMO-7, COSMO-I2 and COSMO-IT

• Quite good QPF for COSMO-I7, COSMO-ME and COSMO-EU