Effects of the Assimilation of Relative Humidity Reproduced from T‐PARCII and Himawari‐8 Satellite Imagery using Dynamical Initialization and Ocean‐Coupled Model: A Case Study of Typhoon Lan (2017)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae‐Deok Lee ◽  
Doo‐Sun R. Park ◽  
Kosuke Ito ◽  
Chun‐Chieh Wu
Keyword(s):  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Coupled Model

Assessment of Potential Damage Factor: A Case Study of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Kolkata

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
Chiradeep Basu ◽  
Subarna Bhattacharyya ◽  
Anirban Chaudhuri ◽  
Shaheen Akhtar ◽  
Akash Chatterjee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Nitrogen Concentration ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Airborne Microorganisms ◽  
Air Movement ◽  
Fungal Load ◽  
Heritage Building ◽  
Central Pollution Control Board ◽  
Potential Damage

Damaging factors such as airborne microorganisms, relative humidity, ventilation, temperature and air pollutants are the major concerns of the tropical climate of Kolkata, India where our study site, 172-year-old St. Paul’s Cathedral is located. In this context, the aim was to develop an equation to assess the management priority and which factors would be more responsible for potentially damaging the heritage building. The temperature varied from 28°C to 31°C, relative humidity was recorded 72% over a period of 14 days in the prayer hall whereas almost constant temperature (27°C) and relative humidity (55%) were recorded in crypt. Air movement was recorded 0.5–3 m s−1 in both crypt and prayer hall. Sulphur dioxide and oxide of nitrogen concentration were lower than the standard mentioned by the Central Pollution Control Board, India. The fungal load was lower inside the crypt (237 CFU m−3) than in the prayer hall (793 CFU m−3). Calculated potential damage for prayer hall and crypt was found to be 48.75% and 37.08%, respectively. Results revealed that microbial load and relative humidity were the potent factors for damage to the building. Continuous air movement, that is, ventilation and building design here played significant roles. The Heritage Conservation Committee can use the data for better management.

Reconstruction of sand wave bathymetry using both satellite imagery and multi-beam bathymetric data: a case study of the Taiwan Banks

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (9) ◽  
pp. 3286-3299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiekai He ◽  
Ninghua Chen ◽  
Huaguo Zhang ◽  
Bin Fu ◽  
Xiaozhen Wang
Keyword(s):  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Sand Wave ◽  
Bathymetric Data

scholarly journals Numerical simulations of June 7, 2020 convective precipitation over Slovakia using deterministic, probabilistic, and convection-permitting approaches

Időjárás ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 125 (4) ◽  
pp. 571-607
Author(s):  
André Simon ◽  
Martin Belluš ◽  
Katarína Čatlošová ◽  
Mária Derková ◽  
Martin Dian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Weather Prediction ◽  
Severe Weather ◽  
Precipitation Forecast ◽  
Convective Precipitation ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Limited Area ◽  
Systematic Effect ◽  
The Impact

The paper presented is dedicated to the evaluation of the influence of various improvements to the numerical weather prediction (NWP) systems exploited at the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute (SHMÚ). The impact was illustrated in a case study with multicell thunderstorms and the results were confronted with the reference analyses from the INCA nowcasting system, regional radar reflectivity data, and METEOSAT satellite imagery. The convective cells evolution was diagnosed in non-hydrostatic dynamics experiments to study weak mesoscale vortices and updrafts. The growth of simulated clouds and evolution of the temperature at their top were compared with the brightness temperature analyzed from satellite imagery. The results obtained indicated the potential for modeling and diagnostics of small-scale structures within the convective cloudiness, which could be related to severe weather. Furthermore, the non-hydrostatic dynamics experiments related to the stability and performance improvement of the time scheme led to the formulation of a new approach to linear operator definition for semi-implicit scheme (in text referred as NHHY). We demonstrate that the execution efficiency has improved by more than 20%. The exploitation of several high resolution measurement types in data assimilation contributed to more precise position of predicted patterns and precipitation representation in the case study. The non-hydrostatic dynamics provided more detailed structures. On the other hand, the potential of a single deterministic forecast of prefrontal heavy precipitation was not as high as provided by the ensemble system. The prediction of a regional ensemble system A-LAEF (ALARO Limited Area Ensemble Forecast) enhanced the localization of precipitation patterns. Though, this was rather due to the simulation of uncertainty in the initial conditions and also because of the stochastic perturbation of physics tendencies. The various physical parameterization setups of A-LAEF members did not exhibit a systematic effect on precipitation forecast in the evaluated case. Moreover, the ensemble system allowed an estimation of uncertainty in a rapidly developing severe weather case, which was high even at very short range.

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