A New Vortex Initialization Scheme Coupled with WRF-ARW

Table 4

Averaged terms and improvements of track, CSLP, and MWSP by the vortex initialization scheme.

Averaged AE terms	Without initialization	With initialization	Improvement
24 h track	58.2	69.7
48 h track	99.3	103.4
72 h track	178.3	163.4	8.4%
96 h track	365.6	326.3	10.8%
MAE of track	119.0	114.2	4.0%
24 h CSLP	13.9	9.2	33.6%
48 h CSLP	15.8	15.0	4.8%
72 h CSLP	12.8	12.9
96 h CSLP	14.0	14.0	0.1%
MAE of CSLP	14.1	11.6	17.6%
24 h MWSP	6.6	6.5	2.1%
48 h MWSP	8.1	7.0	13.5%
72 h MWSP	7.3	6.8	7.0%
96 h MWSP	5.0	3.2	35.2%
MAE of MWSP	6.7	5.7	14.5%