Parametrizações convectivas no modelo WRF e sua relação com a precipitação durante ciclogêneses no sudeste da América do Sul

Abstract

The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model is used in the simulation of 26 cases of cyclogenesis in southeastern South America, on the cyclogenetic region near the La Plata River mouth. The simulations comprised 26 cases of cyclogenesis in which rainfall was observed over the region, especially on the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Given the important role of convective parameterization in the production of precipitation into a numerical weather prediction model, this study aims to evaluate the precipitation produced in the simulations of cases of cyclogenesis using three different convection parameterization schemes: Betts-Miller-Janjic (BMJ), Grell-Dévényi (GD) e Kain-Fritsch (KF), keeping the other physical options, to isolate the impact of using different parameterizations for convection. For the evaluation of simulated rainfall, verification skill scores were used in order to make an objective assessment of simulated rain field from the observed data set (TRMM and MERGE), also allowing a comparison between simulations with different schemes. The results of the skill scores showed that, in general, the WRF best represents the rain of lower thresholds, with indexes based positioning (ETS, POD and RAF) with values closer to the ideal. The BIAS score indicated that the area of light rain is usually overestimated, while moderate and heavy rain showed greater differences between simulations with KF and BMJ schemes and verified with the two sets of observed data. Differences in the verification scores showed that the way how the convective flows are treated by schemes exert great influence on the precipitation produced, with the largest differences being observed between the BMJ and KF schemes. The simulations with the BMJ, wich is a convective adjustment based scheme, produced clearly smaller areal coverage and rainfall volume, especially if compared to the simulations with the KF scheme. Along with lower production of precipitation, the simulations with the BMJ showed, on average, smaller partition of convective rainfall compared to others. The sea level pressure field showed no significant differences, with the WRF simulating consistently with the GFS-FNL analysis, the position and central pressure of the cyclones.