Articles | Volume 14, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1941-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1941-2021
Research article
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09 Mar 2021
Research article |  | 09 Mar 2021

Using machine learning to model uncertainty for water vapor atmospheric motion vectors

Joaquim V. Teixeira, Hai Nguyen, Derek J. Posselt, Hui Su, and Longtao Wu

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Wind-tracking algorithms produce atmospheric motion vectors (AMVs) by tracking satellite observations. Accurately characterizing the uncertainties in AMVs is essential in assimilating them into data assimilation models. We develop a machine-learning-based approach for error characterization which involves Gaussian mixture model clustering and random forest using a simulation dataset of water vapor, AMVs, and true winds. We show that our method improves on existing AMV error characterizations.