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American Meteorological Society, Weather and Forecasting, 2(29), p. 305-330, 2014

DOI: 10.1175/waf-d-12-00101.1

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Correcting Marine Surface Winds Simulated in Atmospheric Models Using Spatially and Temporally Varying Linear Regression

Journal article published in 2014 by Tom H. Durrant ORCID, Diana J. M. Greenslade, Ian Simmonds, Frank Woodcock
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Abstract This study examines the application of three different variations of linear-regression corrections to the surface marine winds from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology’s recently implemented operational atmospheric model. A simple correction over the entire domain is found to inadequately account for geographical variation in the wind bias. This is addressed by considering corrections that vary in space. Further, these spatially varying corrections are extended to vary in time. In an operational environment, the error characteristics of the wind forcing can be expected to change over time with the evolution of the atmospheric model. This in turn requires any applied correction to be monitored and maintained. Motivated by a desire to avoid this manual maintenance, a self-learning correction method is proposed whereby spatially and temporally varying corrections are calculated in real time from a moving window of historical comparisons between observations and preceding forecasts. This technique is shown to effectively remove both global and regionally varying wind speed biases.