Implicit and explicit cross‐correlations in coupled data assimilation

Abstract

The European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts has recently developed an implicit coupling approach in the coupled atmosphere–ocean assimilation (CERA) system, where atmospheric 4D‐Var and ocean 3D‐Var are synchronized using multiple outer iterations in the incremental variational formulation. Since this original work on outer‐loop coupling, it has been unclear just how closely the CERA system with implicit coupled covariances approximates a strongly coupled data assimilation with ensemble‐based coupled covariances.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2018
Source ID
10.1002/qj.3373

Entities

People

  • Benjamin Ménétrier
  • Massimo Bonavita
  • Patrick Laloyaux
  • Sergey Frolov

Organizations

  • European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
  • Office of Naval Research
  • Seventh Framework Programme
  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Surface Engineering/Surface Coating Technology.