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A network of water vapor Raman lidars for improving heavy precipitation forecasting in southern France: introducing the WaLiNeAs initiative

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Extreme heavy precipitation events (HPEs) pose a threat to human life but remain difficult to predict because of the lack of adequate high frequency and high-resolution water vapor (WV) observations in the low troposphere (below 3 km). To fill this observational gap, we aim at implementing an integrated prediction tool, coupling network measurements of WV profiles, and a numerical weather prediction model to precisely estimate the amount, timing, and location of rainfall associated with HPEs in southern France (struck by ~ 7 HPEs per year on average during the fall). The Water vapor Lidar Network Assimilation (WaLiNeAs) project will deploy a network of 6 autonomous Raman WV lidars around the Western Mediterranean to provide measurements with high vertical resolution and accuracy to be assimilated in the French Application of Research to Operations at Mesoscale (AROME-France) model, using a four-dimensional ensemble-variational approach with 15-min updates. This integrated prediction tool is expected to enhance the model capability for kilometer-scale prediction of HPEs over southern France up to 48 h in advance. The field campaign is scheduled to start early September 2022, to cover the period most propitious to heavy precipitation events in southern France. The Raman WV lidar network will be operated by a consortium of French, German, Italian, and Spanish research groups. This project will lead to recommendations on the lidar data processing for future operational exploitation in numerical weather prediction (NWP) systems.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Evelyne Richard and Mathieu Nuret, now retired, who have contributed to the original version of the WaLiNeAs proposals submitted to ANR in 2018 and 2019. The authors wish to thank the reviewers for their time and their thoughtful comments that helped improve the manuscript.

Funding

This work is a follow on initiative to the HyMeX programme supported by MISTRALS and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche WaLiNeAs Grant ANR-20-CE04-0001. Additional funding was also obtained from the H2020 program of the European Union (grant agreement nos. 654109, 778349, 871115), the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (ref. PID2019-103886RB-I00), the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (ref. CGL2017-90884-REDT), and the Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu (ref. MDM-2016–0600) financed by the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación.

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  1. LATMOS/IPSL, CNRS-SU-UVSQ, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

    Cyrille Flamant & Pascal Genau

  2. LSCE/IPSL, CNRS-CEA-UVSQ, University Paris-Saclay, CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France

    Patrick Chazette, Julien Totems & Alexandre Baron

  3. CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France

    Olivier Caumont, Nadia Fourrié, Pierre Brousseau, Clotilde Augros, Veronique Ducrocq & Laurent Labatut

  4. Scuola Di Ingegneria, Università Della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

    Paolo Di Girolamo, Marco Cacciani, Benedetto De Rosa & Donato Summa

  5. Institut Für Physik Und Meteorologie, Universitat Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

    Andreas Behrendt, Diego Lange, Rohith Thundathil & Volker Wulfmeyer

  6. CommSensLab, Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Michaël Sicard, Adolfo Comerón, Constantino Muñoz-Porcar & Alejandro Rodríguez-Gómez

  7. Institut D’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, Ciències I Tecnologies de L’Espai-Centre de Recerca de L’Aeronàutica I de L’Espai, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Michaël Sicard

  8. CNR-IMAA, Tito Scalo center, Potenza, Italy

    Donato Summa

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Flamant, C., Chazette, P., Caumont, O. et al. A network of water vapor Raman lidars for improving heavy precipitation forecasting in southern France: introducing the WaLiNeAs initiative. Bull. of Atmos. Sci.& Technol. 2, 10 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42865-021-00037-6

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