Exploring the Usefulness of Downscaling Free Forecasts from the Warn-on-Forecast System

Miller, William J. S.; Potvin, Corey K.; Flora, Montgomery L.; Gallo, Burkely T.; Wicker, Louis J.; Jones, Thomas A.; Skinner, Patrick S.; Matilla, Brian C.; Knopfmeier, Kent H.

doi:10.1175/WAF-D-21-0079.1

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Exploring the Usefulness of Downscaling Free Forecasts from the Warn-on-Forecast System

2022
By Miller, William J. S. ; Potvin, Corey K. ; Flora, Montgomery L. ; ...
Source: Weather and Forecasting, 37(2), 181-203

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Miller, William J. S. ; Potvin, Corey K. ; Flora, Montgomery L. ; Gallo, Burkely T. ; Wicker, Louis J. ; ... More +

Miller, William J. S. ; Potvin, Corey K. ; Flora, Montgomery L. ; Gallo, Burkely T. ; Wicker, Louis J. ; Jones, Thomas A. ; Skinner, Patrick S. ; Matilla, Brian C. ; Knopfmeier, Kent H. Less -
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The National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Warn-on-Forecast System (WoFS) is an experimental real-time rapidly updating convection-allowing ensemble that provides probabilistic short-term thunderstorm forecasts. This study evaluates the impacts of reducing the forecast model horizontal grid spacing Δx from 3 to 1.5 km on the WoFS deterministic and probabilistic forecast skill, using 11 case days selected from the 2020 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) Spring Forecasting Experiment (SFE). Verification methods include (i) subjective forecaster impressions; (ii) a deterministic object-based technique that identifies forecast reflectivity and rotation track storm objects as contiguous local maxima in the composite reflectivity and updraft helicity fields, respectively, and matches them to observed storm objects; and (iii) a recently developed algorithm that matches observed mesocyclones to mesocyclone probability swath objects constructed from the full ensemble of rotation track objects. Reducing Δx fails to systematically improve deterministic skill in forecasting reflectivity object occurrence, as measured by critical success index (CSIDET), a metric that incorporates both probability of detection (PODDET) and false alarm ratio (FARDET). However, compared to the Δx = 3 km configuration, the Δx = 1.5 km WoFS shows improved midlevel mesocyclone detection, as evidenced by its statistically significant (i) higher CSIDET for deterministic midlevel rotation track objects and (ii) higher normalized area under the performance diagram curve (NAUPDC) score for probability swath objects. Comparison between Δx = 3 km and Δx = 1.5 km reflectivity object properties reveals that the latter have 30% stronger mean updraft speeds, 17% stronger median 80-m winds, 67% larger median hail diameter, and 28% higher median near-storm-maximum 0–3-km storm-relative helicity.
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Weather and Forecasting, 37(2), 181-203
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