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Ozone (O\(_3\)) generally shows lower concentration inside the eyewall and higher concentration around the eye in tropical cyclones (TCs). In this study, we identify the impact of O\(_3\) observations on TC structure through a coupled atmosphere-chemistry data assimilation (DA) system. We applied the Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with Chemistry (WRF-Chem) and an ensemble-based DA algorithm—the maximum likelihood ensemble filter (MLEF ) to a case TC over East Asia, Typhoon Nabi (2005). The ensemble forecast with 32 ensembles shows larger background state uncertainty over the TC . The assimilation of O\(_3\) observations, with a 6 h assimilation window, impacts both O\(_3\) itself and wind field in the vicinity of TC . Several measures for verification, including the cost function, root mean square (RMS) error with respect to observations and degrees of freedom for signal (DFS), indicate improvement of the analysis fields through the O\(_3\) DA. The cost function and RMS error have decreased by 17 and 9 %, respectively. The DFS shows large reduction in uncertainty, indicating a strong positive impact of observations in the TC area.
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This work is supported by the Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute through the Eco Innovation Program (ARQ201204015), and partly by the National Research Foundation of Korea grant (No. 2009-0083527) funded by the Korean government (MSIP). The third author acknowledges a partial support from the National Science Foundation Collaboration in Mathematical Geosciences Grant 0930265 and the NASA Modeling, Analysis and Prediction (MAP) Program Grant NNX13AO10G.
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Park, S.K., Lim, S., Županski, M. (2017). A Coupled Atmosphere-Chemistry Data Assimilation: Impact of Ozone Observation on Structure of a Tropical Cyclone. In: Park, S., Xu, L. (eds) Data Assimilation for Atmospheric, Oceanic and Hydrologic Applications (Vol. III). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43415-5_20
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