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290<br />

ESCAP/WMO<br />

<strong>Typhoon</strong> <strong>Committee</strong> Annual Review 2009<br />

Fig.10. Track of TY FENGSHEN (0806) and<br />

forecasts of CMA’s typhoon track prediction<br />

model. Other explanations are similar to those in<br />

Fig.6<br />

Table 5. Verification for track forecasts of TY<br />

FENGSHEN (0806) ( position errors, km)<br />

4.6. TY 0816 MEKKHALA<br />

MEKKHALA formed as TD on 18 UTC<br />

27/09/2008 in SCS. Moving NW it gained<br />

intensity of TS on 00 UTC 29/09/2008. It<br />

reached the peak intensity with Vmax of<br />

45 kts and center pressure of 900 hPa at<br />

18 UTC 29/09/2008. Early on 30/09/2008<br />

MEKKHALA hit Central Vietnam coastline .<br />

Then it turned to WNW and weakened into a<br />

TD and moved to Laos dissipating at 18 UTC<br />

30/09/2008. This TS moved fast.<br />

As can be seen from Fig. 11 and Tab.6 the<br />

errors are large for forecast period +24h.<br />

Also, one model forecast had NW bias.<br />

Forecasts from different forecast centers<br />

failed to catch its fast motion.<br />

Date<br />

time<br />

and 00 +12h +24h +36h +48h +60h +72h<br />

2008061900 24.6 22.2 122.4 218.6 313.0 326.3 278.9<br />

2008061906 0.0 62.4 180.0 261.9 330.2 359.3 389.8<br />

2008061912 15.6 100.7 130.5 219.0 217.3 262.4 345.7<br />

2008061918 11.1 32.7 108.9 193.2 185.8 135.3 308.1<br />

2008062000 24.8 94.3 155.9 139.7 135.7 177.8 263.2<br />

2008062006 0.0 39.5 128.8 131.1 150.5 305.3 299.2<br />

2008062012 24.4 144.0 190.7 123.0 15.4 182.4 271.9<br />

2008062018 44.9 94.9 77.5 32.1 277.1 300.9 432.2<br />

2008062100 48.9 80.8 10.8 75.7 274.2 331.5 389.4<br />

2008062106 39.4 202.0 225.3 400.7 561.0 659.9 718.3<br />

2008062112<br />

2008062118<br />

2008062200<br />

2008062206<br />

2008062212<br />

2008062218<br />

2008062300<br />

2008062306<br />

2008062312<br />

2008062318<br />

34.4<br />

10.8<br />

10.8<br />

0.0<br />

34.0<br />

10.7<br />

0.0<br />

0.0<br />

0.0<br />

11.1<br />

87.5<br />

75.8<br />

164.4<br />

285.2<br />

224.1<br />

105.2<br />

101.1<br />

64.2<br />

33.3<br />

33.4<br />

119.7<br />

323.1<br />

299.0<br />

365.6<br />

435.7<br />

312.7<br />

168.6<br />

125.6<br />

136.1<br />

112.4<br />

230.0<br />

301.0<br />

376.7<br />

507.2<br />

-<br />

401.4<br />

290.7<br />

290.9<br />

308.1<br />

225.0<br />

276.4<br />

389.1<br />

497.6<br />

686.4<br />

-<br />

-<br />

452.1<br />

470.4<br />

386.5<br />

284.4<br />

346.7<br />

492.1<br />

745.0<br />

992.5<br />

-<br />

-<br />

-<br />

-<br />

-<br />

-<br />

494.3<br />

-<br />

-<br />

-<br />

-<br />

-<br />

-<br />

-<br />

-<br />

-<br />

2008062400<br />

2008062406<br />

2008062412<br />

2008062418<br />

2008062500<br />

2008062506<br />

2008062512<br />

2008062518<br />

0.0<br />

11.1<br />

0.0<br />

15.2<br />

0.0<br />

22.2<br />

22.2<br />

11.1<br />

56.4<br />

95.5<br />

83.7<br />

107.7<br />

111.7<br />

75.3<br />

-<br />

-<br />

133.7<br />

133.0<br />

40.8<br />

143.2<br />

-<br />

-<br />

-<br />

-<br />

204.5<br />

203.7<br />

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-<br />

-<br />

-<br />

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FCST TIMES 28 26 24 21 18 16 11<br />

Average (km) 15.3 99.1 174.2 244.5 327.9 419.8 381.0<br />

Min (km) 0.0 22.2 10.8 32.1 15.4 135.3 263.2<br />

Max (km) 48.9 285.2 435.7 507.2 686.4 992.5 718.3

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