Dienstag, 28. Juni 2022, 16:30 - 18:00 iCal
Vortrag von Michael RIEMER
(University of Mainz)
"Limits of predictability: Insights from the perspective of atmospheric dynamics"
Vortrag im Rahmen des Meteorologisch-Geophysikalischen Kolloquiums.
Room 2F513, (Exner-Raum)
Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2, UZA 2, 1090 Wien
Lecture
Abstract: How well can we predict the weather? Questions about the limits of predictability pose an intriguing and societally highly relevant problem. The limit of predictability is directly related to the growth of forecast errors in scale and amplitude. Following seminal work by Ed Lorenz in the late 1960’s, many studies have taken a broad-brush view on the dynamics that underly the growth of forecast errors, namely that scale interactions occur as if the atmosphere behaved like homogenous and isotropic turbulence. Applying a quantitative potential-vorticity framework, new insight into the growth of forecast errors in the midlatitudes is gained. In a conceptual, multi-stage error-growth model, upper-tropospheric divergent outflow is identified as the most efficient process that projects uncertainties in the representation of moist processes onto the tropopause dynamics. Nonlinearities in the Rossby wave dynamics then dominates further growth, while the direct role of baroclinic instability is small, on average, in contrast to widely held previous ideas. Our improved mechanistic understanding of error growth finally suggests an avenue to identify forecasts situations in that the limits of predictability are already reached, i.e., in that no further improvements to state-of-the-art forecast systems would yield a measurable increases in forecast skill.
Online: univienna.zoom.us/j/62427102123
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Veranstalter
Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik
Kontakt
Andreas Plach/Herta Gassner
Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik
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