Assimilation of MWHS-2/FY-3C 183 GHz Channels Using a Dynamic Emissivity Retrieval and Its Impacts on Precipitation Forecasts: A Southwest Vortex Case

Table 5

The mean and standard deviation of O-B and O-A and the number of assimilated observations for channels 11–15 in the AL and DY experiments at each analysis time.

MWHS-2/FY-3C channels	Mean (O-B)		Mean (O-A)		Std (O-B)		Std (O-A)		OBS Num
	AL	DY	AL	DY	AL	DY	AL	DY	AL	DY
0000 UTC 23 June
11	0.48	0.48	0.08	0.08	2.17	2.14	0.90	0.89	1140	1356
12	0.19	0.19	−0.06	−0.06	1.96	1.95	0.76	0.76	1106	1187
13	0.08	0.09	0.00	0.01	1.87	1.85	0.68	0.70	1129	1213
14	0.29	0.28	0.24	0.25	1.92	1.92	0.69	0.71	1087	1129
15	−0.42	−0.44	−0.21	−0.22	1.81	1.82	0.76	0.78	1090	1133
1200 UTC 23 June
11	−0.02	−0.07	0.00	0.00	2.16	2.17	0.85	0.86	1144	1362
12	−0.18	−0.17	−0.07	−0.07	1.98	1.98	0.72	0.74	952	1035
13	−0.01	0.02	−0.01	0.01	1.82	1.84	0.70	0.71	962	1046
14	0.45	0.47	0.26	0.28	1.77	1.79	0.73	0.74	906	958
15	0.10	0.09	−0.05	−0.07	1.65	1.70	0.79	0.82	918	977
0000 UTC 24 June
11	0.10	0.00	0.07	0.07	2.23	2.18	0.95	0.91	968	1119
12	0.01	−0.08	0.02	0.01	2.04	2.04	0.82	0.81	959	1039
13	−0.11	−0.18	0.00	0.00	1.88	1.87	0.73	0.74	984	1064
14	−0.01	−0.03	0.11	0.12	1.79	1.79	0.74	0.76	956	1008
15	−0.27	−0.32	−0.10	−0.11	1.71	1.71	0.80	0.80	960	1011
1200 UTC 24 June
11	−0.44	−0.48	−0.02	−0.04	2.42	2.34	0.87	0.89	936	1080
12	−0.44	−0.58	0.04	0.00	2.31	2.18	0.80	0.83	763	864
13	−0.46	−0.43	0.05	0.05	2.21	2.07	0.77	0.82	766	879
14	−0.39	−0.22	0.15	0.19	2.15	2.00	0.83	0.88	711	814
15	−0.54	−0.43	−0.12	−0.12	1.91	1.67	0.86	0.87	722	817