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 Status:Ongoing analysis Material from: Linus, Tim, Thomas H.,..


 

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1. Impact

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On 12-17 September a low-pressure system named Boris caused record-breaking rainfall in Central Europe. It led to severe flooding in e.g Austria, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Poland and also caused fatalities in Romania.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yjjqyv84eo

2. Description of the event

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The plots below show analyses of T850 and z500 from 10 September to 16 September.

For Vienna, 7 stations was found nearby (3-day accumulation):

stnid,latitude,longitude,stnid,elevation,value_0,count

11082,48.04,16.28,11082,212.0,131.1,3

11040,48.12,16.42,11040,200.0,113.4,3

11036,48.12,16.58,11036,183.0,129.7,3

11034,48.2,16.37,11034,177.0,217.6,3

11037,48.2,16.56,11037,153.0,166.6,3

11035,48.25,16.36,11035,209.0,176.9,3

11090,48.26,16.43,11090,162.0,176.1,3


Below are a list of new 5-day records of precipitation in Austria:

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3. Predictability

  

3.1 Data assimilation

 

3.2 HRES

The plots below show 72-hour precipitation in observations (first plot, to be added) and concatenated short forecasts (second plot).

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 The plots below show 72-hour precipitation in ENS control forecasts with different lead times.


 The plots below show 72-hour precipitation in DestinE 4.4km with different lead times.

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The plots below show 72-hour precipitation in AIFS with different lead times.

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The plots below show 72-hour precipitation in AIFS0-ENS member 1 with different lead times. 

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The plot below shows the forecast evolution plot for 72-hour precipitation for Vienna (split in two figures to fit all forecast types)

Observation - green hourglass (to be added
Analysis - green dot
ENS control–red
ENS - blue box-and-whisker
AIFS - cyan dot
Desint4.4km - evergreen dot
AIFS-ENS - grey box-and-whisker
cy49r1 ENS - purple box-and-whisker

Model climate – cyan box-and-whisker 

Ensemble mean as black diamonds. Triangle marks the maximum in the model climate based on 1800 forecasts.

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The plot below shows the same as above but for Ostrava.

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The plots below show hit (green), misses (purple) and false alarms (cyan) of predicting precipitation above the 99th percentile of model climate, based on the ensemble median.

 

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The plots below show the same as above but for AIFS-ENS.

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3.4 Monthly forecasts

The plots below show forecasts of weekly precipitation anomalies for 9-15 September.

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3.5 Comparison with other centres

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