Evaluation of Operational Monsoon Moisture Surveillance and Severe Weather Prediction Utilizing COSMIC-2/FORMOSAT-7 Radio Occultation Observations
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Source and Verification of the COSMIC-2/FORMOSAT-7 RO Observations
2.2. Experimental Design for Monsoon Moisture Surveillance
2.3. Experimental Design for Severe Weather Prediction
2.4. Statistical Method of the Paired t-test
3. Results
3.1. Comparison between the Sampled RO and Radiosonde Profiles
3.2. Monsoon Moisture Surveillance
3.3. Severe Weather Prediction
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Experiments | 0 h | 6 h | 12 h | 18 h | 24 h | 30 h | 36 h | 42 h | 48 h | 54 h | 60 h | 66 h | 72 h | 78 h |
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Member 2 minus Member 2PC | 4.5 | −4.5 | −2.0 | 30.7 | 48.7 | 90.7 | 115.3 | 115.6 | 150.8 | 184.0 | 201.7 | 190.5 | 217.4 | 235.5 |
Member 1PC minus Member 2PC | 33.8 | 16.4 | −8.3 | 3.7 | −0.7 | −0.2 | 8.3 | 6.9 | 6.1 | 37.8 | 0.6 | 123.6 | 27.3 | 68.0 |
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Chen, Y.-C.; Tsai, C.-C.; Wu, Y.-c.; Wang, A.-H.; Wang, C.-J.; Lin, H.-H.; Chen, D.-R.; Yu, Y.-C. Evaluation of Operational Monsoon Moisture Surveillance and Severe Weather Prediction Utilizing COSMIC-2/FORMOSAT-7 Radio Occultation Observations. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 2979. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13152979
Chen Y-C, Tsai C-C, Wu Y-c, Wang A-H, Wang C-J, Lin H-H, Chen D-R, Yu Y-C. Evaluation of Operational Monsoon Moisture Surveillance and Severe Weather Prediction Utilizing COSMIC-2/FORMOSAT-7 Radio Occultation Observations. Remote Sensing. 2021; 13(15):2979. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13152979
Chicago/Turabian StyleChen, Yu-Chun, Chih-Chien Tsai, Yi-chao Wu, An-Hsiang Wang, Chieh-Ju Wang, Hsin-Hung Lin, Dan-Rong Chen, and Yi-Chiang Yu. 2021. "Evaluation of Operational Monsoon Moisture Surveillance and Severe Weather Prediction Utilizing COSMIC-2/FORMOSAT-7 Radio Occultation Observations" Remote Sensing 13, no. 15: 2979. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13152979