l May 13, 2005

Research discussion May 13, 2005


"Motivator"

Actual radiosonde observations YUX Hall Beach around this time

Tropopause theta time series following minimum values (vortex core) from an ensemble mean analysis EnKF WRF simulation (30 km).

Minimum tropopause theta vs. time

Tropopause theta analyses

Tropopause theta analyses: EnKF mean
Tropopause theta analyses: All ensemble members calculated for covariance plots

Spaghetti plots

Spaghetti plot of tropopause theta on 11/19 6 UTC
Spaghetti plots of 500 hPa heights

Column integrated mixing ratios

QVAPOR
QICE+QCLOUD
QVAPOR + QICE + QCLOUD

Radar simulated reflectivity

Radar reflectivity

Cross sections on 11/19 at 06 UTC

Cross sections

Covariance plots
Change in state variables at 11/19/2004 06 UTC needed for 1 std change in tropopause theta change at gridpoint at 11/19/2004 06 UTC
Change in state variables at 11/19/2004 06 UTC needed for 1 std change in tropopause theta change for theta less than 280 K at 11/19/2004 06 UTC
Change in state variables at 11/19/2004 00 UTC needed for 1 std change in tropopause theta change at gridpoint at 11/19/2004 06 UTC
Change in state variables at 11/19/2004 00 UTC needed for 1 std change in tropopause theta change for theta less than 280 K at 11/19/2004 06 UTC

Other plots from EnKF simulation November 18, 2005 00 UTC - November 23, 2005 00 UTC



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