PROGRESS REPORT

01 August 2018

Jason Pajimola Punay

Student, PhD in Atmospheric Physics

Chian-Yi Liu, Ph.D.

Adviser
Objectives

[1] To update on the steps taken regarding the problems previously and
present the newly encountered.
[2] To characterize the rainrates and cloud properties of Typhoon Meranti.

2
  Super Typhoon Meranti (16W).

 TD Rai  Typhoon Malakas (18W).

(19W).
 AMSU Microwave 89 GHz Imagery (4 km Mercator) 2016-09-12 04:18 Enhanced Infrared (IR) Imagery (4 km Mercator) 2016-09-12 04:00
http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/products/tc_realtime/products/storms/2016WP16/AMSUSR89/2016WP16_AMSUSR89_201609120418.GIF http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/products/tc_realtime/products/storms/2016WP16/4KMIRIMG/
2016WP16_4KMIRIMG_201609120400.GIF

Storm Relative 16 km Microwave-Based Total Precipitable Water Imagery 2016-09-12 05:03 IR/WV/Microwave RGB (IR [R], WV [G], MI89 [B]) 04:18
http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/products/tc_realtime/products/storms/2016WP16/MIIWVRGB/
http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/products/tc_realtime/products/storms/2016WP16/16KMTPWP/2016WP16_16KMTPWP_201609120503.GIF
2016WP16_MIIWVRGB_201609120418.jpg
 GPM-imerg  Super Typhoon Meranti (16W).

Rainfall Intensity
color rain rate (mm/h) class
R=0 No rain
0 < R ≤ 0.5 Drizzle  TD Rai  Typhoon Malakas (18W).
0.5 < R ≤ 2.5 Light (19W).
2.5 < R ≤ 7.5 Moderate
R> 7.5 Heavy

12 September 2016 (0400 UTC or 12:00NN local time)

http://www.hko.gov.hk/informtc/meranti/meranti.htm
  Super Typhoon Meranti (16W).

Himawari-8/9
COT

 Typhoon Malakas (18W).

 TD Rai
(19W).

12 September 2016 (0400 UTC or 12:00NN local time)

http://www.hko.gov.hk/informtc/meranti/meranti.htm
MAJOR PROBLEM ENCOUNTERED:

[1] Visually checked (himawari cot) the pixel location

centers of
Meranti~ [2040,4090]
Malakas~ [2880,3700]

[2] Corresponding himawari latitude, longitude of

Meranti~(25.7011, 126.075)
Malakas~(143.181, 17.6259)

[3] These typhoons didn’t pass these locations.

Wrong file for lat/lon of

Himawari?
TIME (UTC) Approx Latitude Approx Longitude
0000 17.90 130.30
0200 18.07 129.97
0230 18.11 129.88
0300 18.15 129.80
0330 18.19 129.72
0400 18.23 129.63
(GPM-Imerg) (18.35) (129.65)
(Himawari) (25.70) (126.08)
0430 18.28 129.55
0500 18.32 129.47
0530 18.36 129.38
0600 18.40 129.30

Have a working code (for rectangle) (change this to circle?)

(Problem previously encountered with data extraction has been resolved already)

http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/products/tc_realtime/storm.asp?storm_identifier=WP162016
Distance (# of data)

20-50 km (74)

50-100 km (270)

100-150 km (450)

150-200 km (630)

200-300 km (1746)

300-400 km (2502)

400-500 km (3222)

500-600 km (3942)
 0.25
Normalized Distribution of Rainrates for Various Radii Ranges from the Eye of Super Typhoon Meranti

[1] For 20-50, 50-100, 100-150, 150-200: decreasing rainrate preference

and narrowing spectrum
0.2

0.15
20-50
50-100
100-150
150-200

0.1

0.05

0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
 0.25
Normalized Distribution of Rainrates for Various Radii Ranges from the Eye of Super Typhoon Meranti

[1] For 20-50, 50-100, 100-150, 150-200: decreasing rainrate preference

and narrowing spectrum
0.2

[2] For 200-300, 300-400: slight increase in rainrate preference and

spectrum is widening

0.15
100-150
150-200
200-300
300-400

0.1

0.05

0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
 0.25
Normalized Distribution of Rainrates for Various Radii Ranges from the Eye of Super Typhoon Meranti

[1] For 20-50, 50-100, 100-150, 150-200: decreasing rainrate preference

and narrowing spectrum
0.2

[2] For 200-300, 300-400: slight increase in rainrate preference and

spectrum is widening

0.15 [3] For 400-500, 500-600: preference of very low rainrate and very
200-300
300-400 narrow distribution
400-500
500-600

0.1

0.05

0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
 0.25
Normalized Distribution of Rainrates for Various Radii Ranges from the Eye of Super Typhoon Meranti

[1] For 20-50, 50-100, 100-150, 150-200: decreasing rainrate preference

and narrowing spectrum
0.2

[2] For 200-300, 300-400: slight increase in rainrate preference and

spectrum is widening
20-50
50-100 0.15 [3] For 400-500, 500-600: preference of very low rainrate and very
100-150
150-200 narrow distribution
200-300
300-400
400-500
500-600
0.1

0.05

0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
(20-200km) The farther the location is away from the eye, the lower
the median rainrate is and the more homogeneous the rainrate
distribution is.
Summary
[1] Highest median rainrates
occur at 50-100 km away from
the eye, followed by 20-50 km.
Moving away from the eye, 100-
150 & 150-200 km rainrate is
decreasing followed by slight
increase at 200-300, 300-400 km.
Beyond 400 km (400-500, 500-
600), rainrates are very low.

[2] Rainrate distribution in

decreasing order of broadness:
2 0 – 5 0 km
5 0 – 1 0 0 km
300-400 km
200-300 km
100-150 km
150-200 km
400-500 km
500-600km
 Future works
• Make the bounding area circular
• Fix the Himawari geolocation problem
• Extract Himawari cloud properties
• Find another way on how to categorize typhoon rainrate and cloud properties.
(typhoon quadrants? rainfall type? cloud type?)

Thank you =)
[suggestions are highly sought especially on how to categorize these things in a typhoon case]