ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS FOR THE COASTAL OCEAN: IMPACT OF DIFFERENT OBSERVED VARIABLES Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • A coastal ocean data assimilation system tested in simulation earlier is examined for sensitivity to the different types of observational data. The system couples an advanced ensemble Kalman filter algorithm to a detailed and sophisticated primitive equations coastal ocean model. It is found that assimilating only one type of data, say temperature, greatly slows down the approach to asymptotic behavior of the analysis of the other variables. Assimilating temperature alone does not help to infer salinity and vice versa. 2008 IEEE.

name of conference

  • IGARSS 2008 - 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

published proceedings

  • IGARSS 2008 - 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

author list (cited authors)

  • Hoffman, R., Ponte, R. M., Kostelich, E., Blumberg, A., Szunyogh, I., & Vinogradov, S. V.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Hoffman, R||Ponte, RM||Kostelich, E||Blumberg, A||Szunyogh, I||Vinogradov, SV

publication date

  • January 2008