We employed two data assimilation techniques including MM5 Four Dimensional Data Asssimilation (FDDA) and Local Analysis and Prediction System (LAPS) to find out the effects of the changed initial conditions on the wind fields simulation according to the objective analysis methods. We designed 5 different modeling cases. EXP B used no data assimilation system. Both EXP F1 using surface observations and EXP F2 with surface and upper-air observations employed MM5 FDDA. EXP L1 using surface observations and EXP L2 with surface and upper-air observations used LAPS.
As results of, simulated wind fields using MM5 FDDA showed locally characterized wind features due to objective analysis techniques in FDDA which is forcefully interpolating simulated results into observations. EXP F1 represented a large difference in comparison of wind speed with EXP B. In case of LAPS, simulated horizontal distribution of wind fields showed a good agreement with the patterns of initial condition and EXP L1 showed comparably lesser effects of data assimilation of surface observations than EXP F1. When upper-air observations are applied to the simulations, while MM5 FDDA could hardly have important effects on the wind fields simulation and showed little differences with simulations with merely surface observations (EXP F1), LAPS played a key role in simulating wind fields accurately and it could contribute to alleviate the overestimated winds in EXP L1 simulations.