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• 제27권1호
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• pp.93-104
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• 2017

The effect of Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) observations on the short-range forecast in East Asia (EA) was investigated for the Northern Hemispheric (NH) summer and winter months, using the Forecast Sensitivity to Observations (FSO) method. For both periods, the contribution of radiosonde (TEMP) to the EA forecast was largest, followed by AIRCRAFT, AMSU-A, Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI), and the atmospheric motion vector of Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite (COMS) or Multi-functional Transport Satellite (MTSAT). The contribution of AMSU-A sensor was largely originated from the NOAA 19, NOAA 18, and MetOp-A (NOAA 19 and 18) satellites in the NH summer (winter). The contribution of AMSU-A sensor on the MetOp-A (NOAA 18 and 19) satellites was large at 00 and 12 UTC (06 and 18 UTC) analysis times, which was associated with the scanning track of four satellites. The MetOp-A provided the radiance data over the Korea Peninsula in the morning (08:00~11:30 LST), which was important to the morning forecast. In the NH summer, the channel 5 observations on MetOp-A, NOAA 18, 19 along the seaside (along the ridge of the subtropical high) increased (decreased) the forecast error slightly (largely). In the NH winter, the channel 8 observations on NOAA 18 (NOAA 15 and MetOp-A) over the Eastern China (Tibetan Plateau) decreased (increased) the forecast error. The FSO provides useful information on the effect of each AMSU-A sensor on the EA forecasts, which leads guidance to better use of AMSU-A observations for EA regional numerical weather prediction.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.139-157
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 위성관측 표면온도 및 해당 온도경향의 불확실성을 조사하기 위하여 북반구($30-90^{\circ}N$) 해양 지역에서 2003-2014년 4월 16-24일 기간에 세 종류의 위성관측 자료(MODIS IST, AIRS/AMSU SST, AIRS only SST)를 상호 비교하였다. AIRS/AMSU 표면온도값에 비하여 MODIS는 해빙과 해수의 경계지역에서 계통적으로 최대 1.6 K 높은 반면에, 해빙 지역에서는 2 K 낮았다. 이러한 주요 원인은 표면온도 산출알고리즘의 해표 정보(e.g., 해빙 탐지)를 위하여 MODIS는 적외 채널만을 사용하는 반면에, AIRS/AMSU는 마이크로파 및 적외 채널을 함께 사용하는 데에 있다. 미국 항공우주국(NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; NASA/GSFC)은 AMSU-A의 노후화를 대비하기 위하여 AIRS/AMSU 알고리즘을 일부 수정하여 AIRS only 알고리즘을 개발하였다. AIRS/AMSU와 AIRS only 표면온도 사이에 평균 제곱근 오차(RMSE)값은 $30-90^{\circ}N$ 해양 지역에서 0.55 K이며, 편차(bias)는 0.13 K이었으며, 해빙/해수 경계 지역에서는 이들 차이가 더 크게 나타났다. 해빙 경계지역에서 AIRS/AMSU와 AIRS only 간의 차이가 다른 지역에 비하여 큰 이유는 AIRS only 알고리즘이 AMSU 마이크로파 자료 대신에 GCM (NOAA Global Forecast System) 온도 산출물을 사용하는 데에 있다. 세 종류의 위성관측 표면온도 자료는 $70-80^{\circ}N$ 위도대에서 유의적인 온도증가($0.23-0.28Kyr^{-1}$)를 보였다. 위성관측 표면온도들 간에 계통적인 불일치는 같은 방향(온도증가 또는 온도감소)으로 해당 온도경향 값들 간의 차이에 영향을 줄 수 있다.

• 대기
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.241-255
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• 2019

Bias correction (BC) and quality control (QC) are essential steps for the proper use of satellite observations in data assimilation (DA) system. BC should be calculated over quality controlled observation. And also QC should be performed for bias corrected observation. In the Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems (KIAPS) Package for Observation Processing (KPOP), we adopted an adaptive BC method that calculates the BC coefficients with background at the analysis time rather than using static BC coefficients. In this study, we have developed an iterative QC-BC method for Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) to reduce the negative feedback from the interaction between BC and QC. The new iterative QC-BC is evaluated in the KIAPS 3-dimensional variational (3DVAR) DA cycle for January 2016. The iterative QC-BC method for AMSU-A shows globally significant benefits for error reduction of the temperature. The positive impacts for the temperature were predominant at latitudes of $30^{\circ}{\sim}90^{\circ}$ of both hemispheres. Moreover, the background warm bias across the troposphere is decreased. Even though AMSU-A is mainly designed for atmospheric temperature sounding, the improvement of AMSU-A pre-processing module has a positive impact on the wind component over latitudes of $30^{\circ}S$ near upper-troposphere, respectively. Consequently, the 3-day-forecast-accuracy is improved about 1% for temperature and zonal wind in the troposphere.

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• 제24권4호
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• pp.523-532
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• 2014

In this study, thermal tropopause height defined from WMO (World Meteorological Organization) using temperature profile derived from Advance Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A; hereafter named AMSU) onboard EOS (Earth Observing System) Aqua satellite is retrieved. The temperature profile of AMSU was validated by comparison with the radiosonde data observed at Osan weather station. The validation in the upper atmosphere from 500 to 100 hPa pressure level showed that correlation coefficients were in the range of 0.85~0.97 and the bias was less than 1 K with Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of ~3 K. Thermal tropopause height was retrieved by using AMSU temperature profile. The bias and RMSE were found to be -5~ -37 hPa and 45~67 hPa, respectively. Correlation coefficients were in the range of 0.5 to 0.7. We also analyzed the change of tropopause height and temperature in middle troposphere in the extreme heavy rain event (23 October, 2003) associated with tropopause folding. As a result, the distinct descent of tropopause height and temperature decrease of ~8 K at 500 hPa altitude were observed at the hour that maximum precipitation and maximum wind speed occurred. These results were consistent with ERA (ECMWF Reanalysis)-Interim data (potential vorticity, temperature) in time and space.

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• 제24권4호
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• pp.491-502
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• 2014

As a part of the KIAPS (Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems) Package for Observation Processing (KPOP), we have developed the modules for Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) pre-processing and its bias correction. The KPOP system calculates the airmass bias correction coefficients via the method of multiple linear regression in which the scan-corrected innovation and the thicknesses of 850~300, 200~50, 50~5, and 10~1 hPa are respectively used for dependent and independent variables. Among the four airmass predictors, the multicollinearity has been shown by the Variance Inflation Factor (VIF) that quantifies the severity of multicollinearity in a least square regression. To resolve the multicollinearity, we adopted simple linear regression and Principal Component Regression (PCR) to calculate the airmass bias correction coefficients and compared the results with those from the multiple linear regression. The analysis shows that the order of performances is multiple linear, principal component, and simple linear regressions. For bias correction for the AMSU-A channel 4 which is the most sensitive to the lower troposphere, the multiple linear regression with all four airmass predictors is superior to the simple linear regression with one airmass predictor of 850~300 hPa. The results of PCR with 95% accumulated variances accounted for eigenvalues showed the similar results of the multiple linear regression.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2002년도 Proceedings of International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.361-365
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• 2002

Rain-rate retrieval using the NOAA/AMSU (Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit) (Zaho et al., 2001) has been implemented at METRI/KMA since 2001. Here, we present the results of the AMSU derived rain-rate and validation result, especially for the rainfall associated with the tropical cyclone for 2001. For the validation, we use rain-rate derived from the ground based radar and/or rainfall observation from the rain gauge in Korea. We estimate the bias score, threat score, bias, RMSE and correlation coefficient for total of 16 tropical cyclone cases. Bias score shows around 1.3 and it increases with the increasing threshold value of rain-rate, while the threat score extends from 0.4 to 0.6 with the increasing threshold value of precipitation. The averaged rain-rate for at all 16 cases is 3.96mm/hr and 1.41mm/hr for the retrieved from AMSU and the ground observation, respectively. On the other hand, AMSU rain-rate shows a much better agreement with the ground based observation over inner part of tropical cyclone than over the outer part (Correlation coefficient for convective region is about 0.7, while it is only about 0.3 over the stratiform region). The larger discrepancy of tile correlation coefficient with the different part of the tropical cyclone is partly due to the time difference in between ice water path and surface rainfall. This results indicates that it might be better to develop the algorithm for different rain classes such as convective and stratiform.

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• 제23권4호
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• pp.453-470
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• 2013

As a part of the KIAPS Observation Processing System (KOPS), we have developed the modules of satellite radiance data pre-processing and quality control, which include observation operators to interpolate model state variables into radiances in observation space. AMSU-A (Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A) level-1d radiance data have been extracted using the BUFR (Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data) decoder and a first guess has been calculated with RTTOV (Radiative Transfer for TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder) version 10.2. For initial quality checks, the pixels contaminated by large amounts of cloud liquid water, heavy precipitation, and sea ice have been removed. Channels for assimilation, rejection, or monitoring have been respectively selected for different surface types since the errors from the skin temperature are caused by inaccurate surface emissivity. Correcting the bias caused by errors in the instruments and radiative transfer model is crucial in radiance data pre-processing. We have developed bias correction modules in two steps based on 30-day innovation statistics (observed radiance minus background; O-B). The scan bias correction has been calculated individually for each channel, satellite, and scan position. Then a multiple linear regression of the scan-bias-corrected innovations with several predictors has been employed to correct the airmass bias.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.19-28
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• 2014

RTTOV와 CRTM은 복사관측자료에 대한 관측연산자로 수치예보에 활용되고 있는 빠른 속도의 복사전달모델이다. 본 연구에서는 두 모델의 기본구조 및 입력자료를 비교했다. 또한, 다양한 파장대를 가진 AMSU-A 마이크로파 센서에 대해 구름에 대한 정보를 포함할 때와 포함하지 않을 때 두 모델로부터 계산된 밝기온도와 관측된 밝기온도를 해양에 대해 비교했다. AMSU-A의 탐측채널(5-14)에 대해서는 두 모델로부터 계산된 밝기온도 값에 큰 차이가 존재하지 않았으나, 대기의 창 채널 및 지표근처의 탐측채널에서는 RTTOV로부터 계산된 밝기온도 값이 관측과 더 가까워 CRTM에 비해 상대적으로 작은 초기추정오차를 보였다. 한편 UM으로부터 제공된 구름물과 얼음의 정보를 추가적으로 활용하였을 때 두 모델로부터 계산된 밝기온도와 관측된 밝기온도의 차이가 감소함을 확인할 수 있었고, 특히 CRTM의 31.4 GHz와 89 GHz 채널에서 모의된 밝기온도와 관측된 밝기온도의 차이가 크게 감소했다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.511-525
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• 2010

MTSAT-1R의 적외 채널 밝기온도와 마이크로웨이브 강수량 자료를 이용하여 강수량을 추정하였다. 정지위성의 밝기온도와 다양한 마이크로웨이브(SSM/I, SSMIS, AMSU-B, AMSRE, TRMM) 강수량의 시공간일지 자료생성 및 관계성을 분석하여 MTSAT-1R 밝기온도와 마이크로웨이브 강수량의 조견표를 작성하였으며 밝기온도에 적용하여 강수량을 산출하였다. 산출 강수량은 지상 AWS 및 TRMM 위성자료를 이용하여 검증하였다. TRMM 2A12(TMI) 방법에 산출 강수량은 AWS 및 TRMM3B42 강수량 검증에서 상관계수는 0.38과 0.61, RMSE는 5.81과 2.44 mm/hr, PC는 0.79와 0.84 그리고 POD는 0.65와 0.87로 가장 높은 결과를 보였다. 전체적으로 위성을 이용한 강수량 산출에서 AWS 강수량과 비교하여 5 mm/hr 이상 그리고 TRMM3B42 강수량과 비교하여 2 mm/hr 이상 많은 강수를 추정하였다. 강수량의 검증 결과는 TRMM 2A12, AMSRE, SSM/I, AMSU-B 및 SSMIS 계열 방법순서로 상관성 등의 대부분 검증에서 높은 결과를 나타내었다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.277-288
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• 2011

Cloudsat satellite data is sensitive to snowfall and collected during each month beginning with Dec 2007 and ending Feb 2008. In this study, we attempt to develop a snowfall retrieval algorithm using a combination of radiometer and cloud radar data. We trained data from the relation between brightness temperature measurements from NOAA's Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit-B(AMSU-B) and the radar reflectivity of the 2B-GEOPROF product from W-band(94 GHz) cloud radar onboard Cloudsat and applied it to the Korea peninsula. We use a principal components analysis to quantify the variations that are the result of the radiometric signatures of snowfall from those of the surface. Finally, we quantify the correlation between the higher principal component (orthogonal to surface variability) of the microwave radiances and the precipitation-sensitive CloudSat radar reflectivities. This work summarizes the results of applying this approach to observations over the East Sea during Feb. 2008. The retrieved data show reasonable estimation for snowfall rate compared with Cloudsat vertical image.