The Impacts of Assimilating Fengyun-4A Atmospheric Motion Vectors on
Typhoon Forecasts
Abstract
Atmospheric motion vectors (AMVs), known as cloud track winds, have
positive impacts on global numerical weather forecasts (NWP). In this
study, AMVs retrieved from Fengyun-2G and Fengyun-4A are compared in
their data quality and impacts on the typhoon forecasts in order to
investigate the differences between the first and second generation of
the geostationary meteorological satellites of China. This report
conducted data evaluation and assimilation-forecasting experiments on
FY-2G and FY-4A atmospheric motion vector (AMVs), respectively. The
results show that the AMVs data of FY-4A are of better quality than
those of FY-2G and assimilating the AMVs of FY-2G and FY-4A have a
neutral to slightly positive impacts on typhoon forecasts, which is
quite encouraging for the operational use in the future.