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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

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

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 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
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

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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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3.5 Comparison with other centres

 

4. Experience from general performance/other cases

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