3.2 Australia
3.2.1 Tropical Cyclone Limited Area Prediction System: TC-LAPS
The following statistics are for the 2001 North West Pacific season.
When multiple storms were present, the principal storm at the base time of the forecast was verified (until recently only one forecast to 48 hours was made per base time).
Total number of TCs verified = 16
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(i) Track errors
Forecast Interval
|
No. Cases
|
Error (km)
|
T+0
|
117
|
20.8
|
T+24
|
110
|
138.7
|
T+48
|
89
|
236.9
|
Distribution of errors in 100 km bins for the 48-hour forecasts
0-100
|
100-200
|
200-300
|
300-400
|
400-500
|
500-600
|
600-700
|
>700
|
14
|
25
|
27
|
10
|
8
|
4
|
1
|
0
|
(ii) Central pressure errors (hPa)
Forecast
|
No.
|
RMS
|
Error
|
Mean
|
Error
|
Abs
|
Error
|
Interval
|
Cases
|
TCL
|
PRS
|
TCL
|
PRS
|
TCL
|
PRS
|
T+0
|
117
|
6.5
|
0.0
|
-5.0
|
0.0
|
5.4
|
0.0
|
T+24
|
110
|
11.0
|
13.7
|
-5.6
|
-3.6
|
8.7
|
11.0
|
T+48
|
89
|
16.6
|
21.8
|
-10.0
|
-8.2
|
13.2
|
18.0
|
(TCL = TC-LAPS; PRS = Persistence)
3.3 China
No tropical cyclone verification statistics are available.
3.4 France
No tropical cyclone verification statistics are available.
3.5 Hong Kong, China
No tropical cyclone verification statistics are available.
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India
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Quasi-Lagrangian Limited Area Model
TRACK PREDICTION ERRORS
YEAR
|
PERIOD
|
24 HRS
|
36 HRS
|
MEAN POSITION ERROR (KM)
|
ANGULAR DEVIATION BETWEEN OBSERVED AND PREDICTED TRACK VECTORS (RMSE) (DEG.)
|
MEAN POSITION ERROR (KM)
|
ANGULAR DEVIATION BETWEEN OBSERVED AND PREDICTED TRACK VECTORS (RMSE)
(DEG.)
|
1998
|
20-22 NOV.
6-10 JUN
|
146.2
140.1
|
17.4
32.4
|
242.6
205.2
|
12.7
27.9
|
1999
|
16-20 MAY
15-18 OCT
26-30 OCT
|
97.4
151.4
107.7
|
12.1
13.7
19.2
|
133.0
426.5
185.7
|
12.2
20.7
23.0
|
2000
|
15-19 OCT
27-30 NOV
|
105.0
114.8
|
25.8
05.7
|
237.1
161.5
|
23.8
15.5
|
2001
|
21-28 MAY
24-27 SEP
14-17 OCT
|
90.0
110.0
120.0
|
15.2
10.1
12.3
|
160.0
180.0
210.0
|
20.1
15.1
22.0
|
MEAN 118.3 16.4 214.1 19.3
Observed track vector : Initial (at T0) to observed (at T0+24H or T0+36H) positions
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