Evaluations of numerical weather prediction(NWP) models from the point of view of inputs required by atmospheric dispersion models

摘要

Numerical weather prediction(NWP) models are being used to provide inputs of wind fields,vertical temperature and stability structure,surface heat and momentum fluxes,mixing depths,and other parameters to atmospheric dispersion models.However,previous evaluations of NWP models tended to focus more on predoictions of weather related parameters,such as rainfall and 500 mb height.An evaluation methodology that is focused more on the needs of dispersion models is proposedand tested on two NWP models(MM5 and RAMS) as applied to a lingt wind direction is the United States.during the summer of1995.It is seen that the root mean square error in hourly averaged wind-speed is about 2m/s and in wind direction is about 50 degrees.It is also seen that there is about two to four times more kinetic energy in the spatial fields of observed wind-speeds as compared to predicted wind-speeds.Thisdifference in kinetic energy may be partly attrbuted to sub-grid scale turbulence,since the model predictions represent averges over the 12 km grid square,while the;;observations were made at points.