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In the past two decades,the ensemble forecasting has gained considerable attention.The atmosphere is a chaotic system,and a small error in the initial conditions will result in an enormous forecast uncertainty with time.It is impossible to precisely predict the future state of the atmosphere by a single (or control) forecasting.The ensemble forecasting is a feasible method to reduce the forecast uncertainty and to provide the reliability information about forecast.Many studies showed that because of the nonlinear filtering effect,the ensemble forecasting is more skillful than the single forecasting according to the statistical average over a large number of numerical experimental cases. However,the forecast skill can vary widely from day to day according to the specific synoptic events.The dependence of the ensemble forecasting on specific event has not been fully addressed in previous studies.Therefore,the performances of the ensemble forecasting in specific experimental cases should be further studied,which is important for improving the forecast skill in weather and climate events.In this paper,the nonlinear local Lyapunov vectors (NLLVs),which indicate orthogonal directions in phase space with different perturbation growth rates,are introduced to generate the initial perturbations for the ensemble forecasting.The NLLVs span the fast-growing perturbation subspace efficiently, and thus may grasp more components in analysis errors than other ensemble methods.Meanwhile,the bred growing mode (BGM) method,which indicates the fastest growing perturbation mode,is also used for the ensemble forecasting. Based on the NLLV and BGM methods,the forecast performances of the ensemble forecasting and single forecasting are compared in the Lorenz63 and Lorenz96 models for specific experimental cases.Additionally,two practical measures, namely the root mean square error (RMSE) and pattern anomaly correlation (PAC),are used to assess the performances of the ensemble forecasting.The results indicate that each ensemble mean forecasting is more skillful than its single forecasting in terms of RMSE and PAC.For each experimental case,the proportion of the ensemble forecasting better than single forecasting gradually increases with time in Lorenz63(Lorenz96) model by both NLLV and BGM methods, respectively.In addition,the variation of probability distribution of the ensemble mean states might be the reason why the forecast error of ensemble forecasting is less than that of the single forecast.The results based on simple model could provide a new perspective to understand ensemble forecasting and may be conducive to the weather and climate prediction.
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Keywords:
- nonlinear local Lyapunov vector /
- ensemble forecasting /
- single forecasting /
- Lorenz model
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[1] Lorenz E N 1963 J. Atmos. Sci. 20 130
[2] Chou J F 1990 New Advances of Atmospheric Dynamic (Lanzhou: Lanzhou University Press) p214 (in Chinese) [丑纪范 1990 大气动力学的新进展(兰州: 兰州大学出版社) 第214页]
[3] Li J P, Chou J 1996 Chin. Sci. Bull. 41 587
[4] Epstein E S 1969 Tellus 21 739
[5] Leith C E 1974 Mon. Wea. Rev. 102 409
[6] Fritsch J M, Hilliker J, Ross J 2000 Wea. Forecasting 15 571
[7] Visloscky R L, Fritsch J M 1995 Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 76 1157
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[36] Lorenz E N, Emanuel K A 1998 J. Atmos. Sci. 55 399
[37] Lorenz E N 1995 Seminar on Predictability Shinfield Park, Reading, United Kingdom, September 4-8, 1995 p1
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