Research Article

An Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) to Assess the Impact of Doppler Wind Lidar (DWL) Measurements on the Numerical Simulation of a Tropical Cyclone

Table 1

Summary of model set up for all experiments.

Regional nature runControl runDA Exp1DA Exp2

Time period00Z 30 September 2005–00Z 05 October 200506Z 01 October 2005-06Z 03 October 200506Z 01 October 2005-06Z 03 October 200506Z 01 October 2005-06Z 03 October 2005
Size of domain
Physics schemeMicrophysics schemeLinWSM-6WSM-6WSM-6
PBL schemeMYJYSUYSUYSU
Cumulus schemeBetts-MillerGrellGrellGrell
InitializationInitial /first guess fieldsT799 NRT511 NRT511 NRT511 NR
Boundary conditionsT799 NRT799 NRT799 NRT799 NR