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Mesoscale eddy plays an important role in the ocean circulation. In order to improve the simulation accuracy of the mesoscale eddies, a three-dimensional variation (3DVAR) data assimilation system called Ocean Variational Analysis System (OVALS) is coupled with a POM model to simulate the mesoscale eddies in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. In this system, the sea surface height anomaly (SSHA) data by satellite altimeters are assimilated and translated into pseudo temperature and salinity (T-S) profile data. Then, these profile data are taken as observation data to be assimilated again and produce the three-dimensional analysis T-S field. According to the characteristics of mesoscale eddy, the most appropriate assimilation parameters are set up and testified in this system. A ten years mesoscale eddies simulation and comparison experiment is made, which includes two schemes: assimilation and non-assimilation. The results of comparison between two schemes and the observation show that the simulation accuracy of the assimilation scheme is much better than that of non-assimilation, which verified that the altimetry data assimilation method can improve the simulation accuracy of the mesoscale dramatically and indicates that it is possible to use this system on the forecast of mesoscale eddies in the future. 相似文献
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Benchmarking the mesoscale variability in global ocean eddy-permitting numerical systems 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Andrea Cipollone Simona Masina Andrea Storto Doroteaciro Iovino 《Ocean Dynamics》2017,67(10):1313-1333
The role of data assimilation procedures on representing ocean mesoscale variability is assessed by applying eddy statistics to a state-of-the-art global ocean reanalysis (C-GLORS), a free global ocean simulation (performed with the NEMO system) and an observation-based dataset (ARMOR3D) used as an independent benchmark. Numerical results are computed on a 1/4 ° horizontal grid (ORCA025) and share the same resolution with ARMOR3D dataset. This “eddy-permitting” resolution is sufficient to allow ocean eddies to form. Further to assessing the eddy statistics from three different datasets, a global three-dimensional eddy detection system is implemented in order to bypass the need of regional-dependent definition of thresholds, typical of commonly adopted eddy detection algorithms. It thus provides full three-dimensional eddy statistics segmenting vertical profiles from local rotational velocities. This criterion is crucial for discerning real eddies from transient surface noise that inevitably affects any two-dimensional algorithm. Data assimilation enhances and corrects mesoscale variability on a wide range of features that cannot be well reproduced otherwise. The free simulation fairly reproduces eddies emerging from western boundary currents and deep baroclinic instabilities, while underestimates shallower vortexes that populate the full basin. The ocean reanalysis recovers most of the missing turbulence, shown by satellite products , that is not generated by the model itself and consistently projects surface variability deep into the water column. The comparison with the statistically reconstructed vertical profiles from ARMOR3D show that ocean data assimilation is able to embed variability into the model dynamics, constraining eddies with in situ and altimetry observation and generating them consistently with local environment. 相似文献
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High-resolution models and realistic boundary conditions are necessary to reproduce the mesoscale dynamics of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). In order to achieve this, we use a nested configuration of the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM), where the Atlantic TOPAZ system provides lateral boundary conditions to a high-resolution (5 km) model of the GOM . However, such models cannot provide accurate forecasts of mesoscale variability, such as eddy shedding event, without data assimilation. Eddy shedding events involve the rapid growth of nonlinear instabilities that are difficult to forecast. The known sources of error are the initial state, the atmospheric condition, and the lateral boundary condition. We present here the benefit of using a small ensemble forecast (10 members) for providing confidence indices for the prediction, while using a data assimilation scheme based on optimal interpolation. Our set of initial states is provided by using different values of a data assimilation parameter, while the atmospheric and lateral boundary conditions are perturbed randomly. Changes in the data assimilation parameter appear to control the main position of the large features of the GOM in the initial state, whereas changes in the boundary conditions (lateral and atmospheric) appears to control the propagation of cyclonic eddies at their boundary. The ensemble forecast is tested for the shedding of Eddy Yankee (2006). The Loop Current and eddy fronts observed from ocean color and altimetry are almost always within the estimated positions from the ensemble forecast. The ensemble spread is correlated both in space and time to the forecast error, which implies that confidence indices can be provided in addition to the forecast. Finally, the ensemble forecast permits the optimization of a data assimilation parameter for best performance at a given forecast horizon. 相似文献
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A mesoscale eddy detection method of specific intensity and scale from SSH image in the South China Sea and the Northwest Pacific 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Mesoscale eddies exist almost everywhere in the ocean and play important roles in the ocean circulation of the world. These eddies may cause sound spread singular regions and bring great influences to the upwater ship and underwater aircraft. Due to the lack of hydrographic survey datasets, study of mesoscale eddies has been greatly restricted. Fortunately, satellite altimeter provided an effective way to study mesoscale eddies. An automatic detection algorithm is introduced to detect mesoscale eddies of specific intensity and spatial/temporal scale based on satellite sea surface height (SSH) data and the algorithm is applied in a strong eddy activity region: the South China Sea and the Northwest Pacific. The algorithm includes four steps. The first step is preprocessing of the SSH image, which includes elimination of error SSH data and interpolation. The second step is to detect suspected mesoscale eddies from preprocessed SSH images by dynamic threshold adjustment and morphological method, and the suspected mesoscale eddy detection includes two procedures: suspected mesoscale eddy core region detection and suspected mesoscale eddy brim extraction. The third step is to pick out mesoscale eddies satisfied with specified criteria from suspected mesoscale eddies. The criteria include three items, that is, intensity criterion, spatial scale, criterion and temporal scale criterion. The last step is algorithm performance analysis and verification. The algorithm has the capability of adaptive parameter adjustment, and can extract mesoscale eddies of interested intensity and spatial/temporal scale. The paper can provide a basis for analyzing space-time characteristics of mesoscale eddy in the South China Sea and the Northwest Pacific. 相似文献
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Miyazawa Yasumasa Kuwano-Yoshida Akira Doi Takeshi Nishikawa Hatsumi Narazaki Tomoko Fukuoka Takuya Sato Katsufumi 《Ocean Dynamics》2019,69(2):267-282
Ocean Dynamics - We demonstrate that assimilation of water temperature measurements by sea turtles into an operational ocean nowcast/forecast system improves representation of mesoscale eddies and... 相似文献
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Toward a global ocean data assimilation system based on ensemble optimum interpolation: altimetry data assimilation experiment 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
A global ocean data assimilation system based on the ensemble optimum interpolation (EnOI) has been under development as the
Chinese contribution to the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment. The system uses a global ocean general circulation
model, which is eddy permitting, developed by the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In
this paper, the implementation of the system is described in detail. We describe the sampling strategy to generate the stationary
ensembles for EnOI. In addition, technical methods are introduced to deal with the requirement of massive memory space to
hold the stationary ensembles of the global ocean. The system can assimilate observations such as satellite altimetry, sea
surface temperature (SST), in situ temperature and salinity from Argo, XBT, Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO), and other sources
in a straightforward way. As a first step, an assimilation experiment from 1997 to 2001 is carried out by assimilating the
sea level anomaly (SLA) data from TOPEX/Poseidon. We evaluate the performance of the system by comparing the results with
various types of observations. We find that SLA assimilation shows very positive impact on the modeled fields. The SST and
sea surface height fields are clearly improved in terms of both the standard deviation and the root mean square difference.
In addition, the assimilation produces some improvements in regions where mesoscale processes cannot be resolved with the
horizontal resolution of this model. Comparisons with TAO profiles in the Pacific show that the temperature and salinity fields
have been improved to varying degrees in the upper ocean. The biases with respect to the independent TAO profiles are reduced
with a maximum magnitude of about 0.25°C and 0.1 psu for the time-averaged temperature and salinity. The improvements on temperature
and salinity also lead to positive impact on the subsurface currents. The equatorial under current is enhanced in the Pacific
although it is still underestimated after the assimilation. 相似文献
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Mikhail S. Dubovikov 《地球物理与天体物理流体动力学》2013,107(1):19-47
In the framework of the eddy dynamic model developed in two previous papers (Dubovikov, M.S., Dynamical model of mesoscale eddies, Geophys. Astophys. Fluid Dyn., 2003, 97, 311–358; Canuto, V.M. and Dubovikov, M.S., Modeling mesoscale eddies, Ocean Modelling, 2004, 8, 1–30 referred as I–II), we compute the contribution of unresolved mesoscale eddies to the large-scale dynamic equations of the ocean. In isopycnal coordinates, in addition to the bolus velocity discussed in I–II, the mesoscale contribution to the large scale momentum equation is derived. Its form is quite different from the traditional down-gradient parameterization. The model solutions in isopycnal coordinates are transformed to level coordinates to parameterize the eddy contributions to the corresponding large scale density and momentum equations. In the former, the contributions due to the eddy induced velocity and to the residual density flux across mean isopycnals (so called Σ-term) are derived, both contributions being shown to be of the same order. As for the large scale momentum equation, as well as in isopycnal coordinates, the eddy contribution has a form which is quite different from the down-gradient expression. 相似文献
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A high resolution (3–8 km grid), 3D numerical ocean model of the West Caribbean Sea (WCS) is used to investigate the variability
and the forcing of flows near the Meso-American Barrier Reef System (MBRS) which runs along the coasts of Mexico, Belize,
Guatemala and Honduras. Mesoscale variations in velocity and temperature along the reef were found in seasonal model simulations
and in observations; these variations are associated with meandering of the Caribbean current (CC) and the propagation of
Caribbean eddies. Diagnostic calculations and a simple assimilation technique are combined to infer the dynamically adjusted
flow associated with particular eddies. The results demonstrate that when a cyclonic eddy (negative sea surface height anomaly
(SSHA)) is found near the MBRS the CC shifts offshore, the cyclonic circulation in the Gulf of Honduras (GOH) intensifies,
and a strong southward flow results along the reef. However, when an anticyclonic eddy (positive SSHA) is found near the reef,
the CC moves onshore and the flow is predominantly westward across the reef. The model results help to explain how drifters
are able to propagate in a direction opposite to the mean circulation when eddies cause a reversal of the coastal circulation.
The effect of including the Meso-American Lagoon west of the Belize Reef in the model topography was also investigated, to
show the importance of having accurate coastal topography in determining the variations of transports across the MBRS. The
variations found in transports across the MBRS (on seasonal and mesoscale time scales) may have important consequences for
biological activities along the reef such as spawning aggregations; better understanding the nature of these variations will
help ongoing efforts in coral reef conservation and maintaining the health of the ecosystem in the region. 相似文献
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Daniel Conti Alejandro Orfila Evan Mason Juan Manuel Sayol Gonzalo Simarro Salvador Balle 《Ocean Dynamics》2016,66(11):1415-1427
This work introduces a new method for ocean eddy detection that applies concepts from stationary dynamical systems theory. The method is composed of three steps: first, the centers of eddies are obtained from fixed points and their linear stability analysis; second, the size of the eddies is estimated from the vorticity between the eddy center and its neighboring fixed points, and, third, a tracking algorithm connects the different time frames. The tracking algorithm has been designed to avoid mismatching connections between eddies at different frames. Eddies are detected for the period between 1992 and 2012 using geostrophic velocities derived from AVISO altimetry and a new database is provided for the global ocean. 相似文献
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Assimilating along-track SLA data using the EnOI in an eddy resolving model of the Agulhas system 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Björn C. Backeberg François Counillon Johnny A. Johannessen Marie–Isabelle Pujol 《Ocean Dynamics》2014,64(8):1121-1136
The greater Agulhas Current is one of the most energetic current systems in the global ocean. It plays a fundamental role in determining the mean state and variability of the regional marine environment, affecting its resources and ecosystem, the regional weather and the global climate on a broad range of temporal and spatial scales. In the absence of a coherent in-situ and satellite-based observing system in the region, modelling and data assimilation techniques play a crucial role in both furthering the quantitative understanding and providing better forecasts of this complicated western boundary current system. In this study, we use a regional implementation of the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model and assimilate along-track satellite sea level anomaly (SLA) data using the Ensemble Optimal Interpolation (EnOI) data assimilation scheme. This study lays the foundation towards the development of a regional prediction system for the greater Agulhas Current system. Comparisons to independent in-situ drifter observations show that data assimilation reduces the error compared to a free model run over a 2-year period. Mesoscale features are placed in more consistent agreement with the drifter trajectories and surface velocity errors are reduced. While the model-based forecasts of surface velocities are not as accurate as persistence forecasts derived from satellite altimeter observations, the error calculated from the drifter measurements for eddy kinetic energy is significantly lower in the assimilation system compared to the persistence forecast. While the assimilation of along-track SLA data introduces a small bias in sea surface temperatures, the representation of water mass properties and deep current velocities in the Agulhas system is improved. 相似文献
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The circulation in the Straits of Florida is dominated by the throughflow of the Florida Current, as modified by tidal flows,
responses to atmospheric cold front and extratropical cyclone (easterly wave and tropical cyclone) passages in winter (summer),
and intrinsic mesoscale variability due to instabilities of the Florida Current front and jet system. Monthly meanders of
the Florida Current, persistent oceanic fronts associated with the Florida Current’s baroclinic jet, and frontal eddies shed
weekly by the Florida Current are the primary mesoscale features. A limited area model (Princeton Ocean Model: POM) is implemented
to cover the Straits of Florida with a curvilinear grid that resolves the mesoscale structure, especially where the baroclinic
flow is locked to steep topography in a 90 degree bend of the Straits. Florida Current cyclonic frontal eddies are spawned
spontaneously, grow as they translate downstream, interact with shelf waters, and exhibit the same space-time attributes that
characterize their observed counterparts, as evidenced by satellite imagery, shipboard synoptic mapping, coastal HF radar,
and moored time series. Here, a deeper understanding is attempted for the frontal eddy kinematics and dynamics by examining,
for example, their sensitivity to model parameter values, synoptic versus monthly atmospheric forcing, and other determinants
of the flow. The mean flow shears are concentrated along the shelfbreak, where these frontal eddies are trapped, favoring
the formation of the eddies by mean flow instabilities. In particular, it is found that the Florida Current frontal eddies
exist independent of the wind-forcing considered (i.e., no winds, monthly winds, and synoptic (but not mesoscale) winds);
however, they are modulated by the synoptic wind-forcing. Nevertheless, intriguingly, the frontal eddies have the same weekly
time scale as the weather cycle. 相似文献
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Remotely sensed observations of sea-level anomaly and sea-surface temperature have been assimilated into an implementation
of the Miami Isopycnic Coordinate Ocean Model (MICOM) for the Indian Ocean using the Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF). The system
has been applied in a hindcast validation experiment to examine the properties of the assimilation scheme when used with a
full ocean general circulation model and real observations. This work is considered as a first step towards an operational
ocean monitoring and forecasting system for the Indian Ocean. The assimilation of real data has demonstrated that the sequential
EnKF can efficiently control the model evolution in time. The use of data assimilation requires a significant amount of additional
processing and computational resources. However, we have tried to justify the cost of using a sophisticated assimilation scheme
by demonstrating strong regional and temporal dependencies of the covariance statistics, which include highly anisotropic
and flow-dependent correlation functions. In particular, we observed a marked difference between error statistics in the equatorial
region and at off-equatorial latitudes. We have also demonstrated how the assimilation of SLA and SST improves the model fields
with respect to real observations. Independent in situ temperature profiles have been used to examine the impact of assimilating
the remotely sensed observations. These intercomparisons have shown that the model temperature and salinity fields better
resemble in situ observations in the assimilation experiment than in a model free-run case. On the other hand, it is also
expected that assimilation of in situ profiles is needed to properly control the deep ocean circulation.
Received: 8 January 2002 / Accepted: 8 April 2002 相似文献
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Using a dynamical advection to reconstruct a part of the SSH evolution in the context of SWOT,application to the Mediterranean Sea 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
The main oceanographic objective of the future SWOT mission is to better characterize the ocean mesoscale and sub-mesoscale circulation, by observing a finer range of ocean topography dynamics down to 20 km wavelength. Despite the very high spatial resolution of the future satellite, it will not capture the time evolution of the shorter mesoscale signals, such as the formation and evolution of small eddies. SWOT will have an exact repeat cycle of 21 days, with near repeats around 5–10 days, depending on the latitude. Here, we investigate a technique to reconstruct the missing 2D SSH signal in the time between two satellite revisits. We use the dynamical interpolation (DI) technique developed by Ubelmann et al. (2015). Based on potential vorticity (hereafter PV) conservation using a one and a half layer quasi-geostrophic model, it features an active advection of the SSH field. This model has been tested in energetic open ocean regions such as the Gulf Stream and the Californian Current, and has given promising results. Here, we test this model in the Western Mediterranean Sea, a lower energy region with complex small scale physics, and compare the SSH reconstruction with the high-resolution Symphonie model. We investigate an extension of the simple dynamical model including a separated mean circulation. We find that the DI gives a 16–18% improvement in the reconstruction of the surface height and eddy kinetic energy fields, compared with a simple linear interpolation, and a 37% improvement in the Northern Current subregion. Reconstruction errors are higher during winter and autumn but statistically, the improvement from the DI is also better for these seasons. 相似文献
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QingYe Wang 《中国科学:地球科学(英文版)》2017,60(9):1719-1731
The three-dimensional structure of mesoscale eddies in the western tropical Pacific(6°S–20°N, 120°E–150°E)is investigated using a high-resolution ocean model simulation. Eddy detection and eddy tracking algorithms are applied to simulated horizontal velocity vectors, and the anticyclonic and cyclonic eddies identified are composited to obtain their three-dimensional structures. The mean lifetime of all long-lived eddies is about 52 days, and their mean diameter is 147 km. Two typical characteristics of mesoscale eddies are revealed and possible dynamic explanations are analyzed. One typical characteristic is that surface eddies are generally separated from subthermocline eddies along the bifurcation latitude(~13°N) of the North Equatorial Current in the western tropical Pacific, which may be associated with different eddy energy sources and vertical eddy energy fluxes in subtropical and tropical gyres. Surface eddies have maximum swirl velocities of 8–9 cm s~(-1) and can extend to about 1500 m depth. Subthermocline eddies occur below 200 m, with their cores at about 400–600 m depth, and their maximum swirl velocities can reach 10 cm s~(-1). The other typical characteristic is that the meridional velocity component of the eddy is much larger than the zonal component. This characteristic might be due to more zonal eddy pairs(two eddies at the same latitude),which is also supported by the zonal wavelength(about 200 km) in the high-frequency meridional velocity component of the horizontal velocity. 相似文献
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The local ensemble transform Kalman filter (LETKF) is implemented with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, and
real observations are assimilated to assess the newly-developed WRF-LETKF system. The WRF model is a widely-used mesoscale
numerical weather prediction model, and the LETKF is an ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) algorithm particularly efficient in
parallel computer architecture. This study aims to provide the basis of future research on mesoscale data assimilation using
the WRF-LETKF system, an additional testbed to the existing EnKF systems with the WRF model used in the previous studies.
The particular LETKF system adopted in this study is based on the system initially developed in 2004 and has been continuously
improved through theoretical studies and wide applications to many kinds of dynamical models including realistic geophysical
models. Most recent and important improvements include an adaptive covariance inflation scheme which considers the spatial
and temporal inhomogeneity of inflation parameters. Experiments show that the LETKF successfully assimilates real observations
and that adaptive inflation is advantageous. Additional experiments with various ensemble sizes show that using more ensemble
members improves the analyses consistently. 相似文献
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Jon Albretsen 《Ocean Dynamics》2007,57(4-5):287-304
We perform eddy-permitting to eddy-resolving simulations of the Skagerrak/northern North Sea with a terrain-following numerical
ocean model. We demonstrate that realistic representations of freshwater input are not required when the focus is on modelling
mesoscale structures such as meanders and eddies. To arrive at this conclusion, we analyze the results using a recently developed
energy diagnostic scheme to study the sensitivity to realistic representations of the lateral freshwater flux provided to
the area from the Baltic Sea and by the major rivers. The scheme is suitable for analysis of growth of instabilities, and
it has four basic instability processes prominent. We recognize both horizontal and vertical shear instabilities. There are
two processes where average potential energy is converted to eddy kinetic energy, and they are related to the mean gradient
in surface elevation and the mean lateral density gradient, respectively. The latter process is known as frontal instability.
We demonstrate that the change in the eddy kinetic energy field is small, despite the large variations in the hydrographic
properties from experiment to experiment. Moreover, generation of eddy activity appears at the same locations and with approximately
the same strength regardless of actual representations of freshwater input. Furthermore, we find that vertical shear instability
dominates the energy conversion processes in the Norwegian Coastal Current. Finally, we find that the areas off the northwest
coast of Denmark recognized with enhanced eddy kinetic energy level is not caused by instability processes but eddy–eddy interaction
rooted in variations in the sea level. 相似文献
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Teddy R. Holt James A. Cummings Craig H. Bishop James D. Doyle Xiaodong Hong Sue Chen Yi Jin 《Ocean Dynamics》2011,61(11):1937-1954
A coupled ocean–atmosphere mesoscale ensemble prediction system has been developed by the Naval Research Laboratory. This paper describes the components and implementation of the system and presents baseline results from coupled ensemble simulations for two tropical cyclones. The system is designed to take into account major sources of uncertainty in: (1) non-deterministic dynamics, (2) model error, and (3) initial states. The purpose of the system is to provide mesoscale ensemble forecasts for use in probabilistic products, such as reliability and frequency of occurrence, and in risk management applications. The system components include COAMPS® (Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System) and NCOM (Navy Coastal Ocean Model) for atmosphere and ocean forecasting and NAVDAS (NRL Atmospheric Variational Data Assimilation System) and NCODA (Navy Coupled Ocean Data Assimilation) for atmosphere and ocean data assimilation. NAVDAS and NCODA are 3D-variational (3DVAR) analysis schemes. The ensembles are generated using separate applications of the Ensemble Transform (ET) technique in both the atmosphere (for moving or non-moving nests) and the ocean. The atmospheric ET is computed using wind, temperature, and moisture variables, while the oceanographic ET is derived from ocean current, temperature, and salinity variables. Estimates of analysis error covariance, which is used as a constraint in the ET, are provided by the ocean and atmosphere 3DVAR assimilation systems. The newly developed system has been successfully tested for a variety of configurations, including differing model resolution, number of members, forecast length, and moving and fixed nest options. Results from relatively coarse resolution (~27-km) ensemble simulations of Hurricanes Hanna and Ike demonstrate that the ensemble can provide valuable uncertainty information about the storm track and intensity, though the ensemble mean provides only a small amount of improved predictive skill compared to the deterministic control member. 相似文献
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Sea surface temperature (SST) from a near real-time data set produced from satellites data has been assimilated into a coupled
ice–ocean forecasting model (Canadian East Coast Ocean Model) using an efficient data assimilation method. The method is based
on an optimal interpolation scheme by which SST is melded into the model through the adjustment of surface heat flux. The
magnitude and space–time variation of the adjustment depend on the depth of heat diffusion into the water column in response
to changes in surface flux, the correlation time scale of the data, and model and data errors. The diffusion depth is scaled
by the eddy diffusivity for temperature. The ratio of the model and data errors is treated as an adjustable parameter. To
evaluate the quality of the assimilation, the results from the model with and without assimilation are compared to independent
ship data from the Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program and the World Ocean Circulation Experiment. It is shown that the assimilation
has a significant impact on the modeled SST, reducing the root mean square difference (RMSD) between the model SST and the
ship SST by 0.63°C or 37%. The RMSD of the assimilated SST is smaller than that of the satellite SST by 0.23°C. This suggests
that model simulations or predictions with data assimilation can provide the best estimate of the true SST. A sensitivity
study is performed to examine the change of the model RMSD with the adjustable parameter in the assimilation equation. The
results show that there is an optimal value of the parameter and the model SST is not very sensitive to the parameter. 相似文献
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Problems of the variational data assimilation for the primitive equation ocean model constructed at the Institute of Numerical
Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences are considered. The model has a flexible computational structure and consists of
two parts: a forward prognostic model, and its adjoint analog. The numerical algorithm for the forward and adjoint models
is constructed based on the method of multicomponent splitting. The method includes splitting with respect to physical processes
and space coordinates. Numerical experiments are performed with the use of the Indian Ocean and the World Ocean as examples.
These numerical examples support the theoretical conclusions and demonstrate the rationality of the approach using an ocean
dynamics model with an observed data assimilation procedure. 相似文献
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The circulation of the Southern Ocean is studied in the eddy-resolving model POP (Parallel Ocean Program) by an analysis
of zonally integrated balances. The TEM formalism (Transformed Eulerian Mean) is extended to include topography and continental
boundaries, thus deviations from a zonally integrated state involve transient and standing eddies. The meridional circulation
is presented in terms of the Eulerian, eddy-induced, and residual streamfunctions. It is shown that the splitting of the meridional
circulation into Ekman and geostrophic transports and the component induced by subgrid and Reynolds stresses is identical
to a particular form of the zonally integrated balance of zonal momentum. In this balance, the eddy-induced streamfunctions
represent the interfacial form stresses by transient and standing eddies and the residual streamfunction represents the acceleration
of the zonal current by density fluxes in a zonally integrated frame. The latter acceleration term is directly related to
the surface flux of density and interior fluxes due to the resolved and unresolved eddies. The eddy-induced circulation is
extremely vigorous in POP. In the upper ocean a shallow circulation, reversed in comparison to the Deacon cell and mainly
due to standing eddies, appears to the north of Drake Passage latitudes, and in the Drake Passage belt of latitudes a deep-reaching
cell is induced by transient eddies. In the resulting residual circulation the Deacon cell is largely cancelled and the residual
advection of the zonal mean potential density is balanced by diapycnal eddy and subgrid fluxes which are strong in the upper
few hundred meters but small in the ocean interior. The balance of zonal momentum is consistent with other eddy-resolving
models; a new aspect is the clear identification of density effects in the zonally integrated balance. We show that the wind
stress and the stress induced by the residual circulation drive the eastward current, whereas both eddy species result in
a braking. Finally, we extend the Johnson–Bryden model of zonal transport to incorporate all relevant terms from the zonal
momentum balance. It is shown that wind stress and induction by the residual circulation carry an eastward transport while
bottom form stress and the stress induced by standing eddies yield westward components of transport.
Received: 26 June 2001 / Accepted: 2 November 2001 相似文献