Evaluation of the Impacts of Assimilating the TAMDAR Data on 12/4 km Grid WRF-Based RTFDDA Simulations over the CONUS

Figure 5

Vertical profiles of temperature (a) mean values (K), (b) mean forecast biases (K), (c) percentage improvement for RMSE, and (d) correlation improvement averaged over all locations and simulation period. Red and blue lines in (a) and (b) show model runs without the TAMDAR data and with the TAMDAR data, respectively (Domain 1: light color; Domain 2: dark color). Percentage improvement for RMSE and correlation improvement due to the assimilation of the TAMDAR data for Domain 1 and Domain 2 are represented in (c) and (d) by light and dark red lines, respectively.

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