Comparison of Data Assimilation Methods in Hydrodynamics Ocean Circulation Models


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Abstract

Two different data assimilation methods are compared: the author’s method of the generalized Kalman filter (GKF) proposed earlier and the standard ensemble objective interpolation (EnOI) method, which is a particular case of the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) scheme. The methods are compared with respect to different criteria, in particular, the criterion of the forecasting error minimum and a posteriori error minimum over a given time interval. The Archiving, Validating and Interpolating Satellite Oceanography Data (AVISO), i.e., the altimetry data, was used as the observation data; the Hybrid Circulation Ocean Model (HYCOM) model was used as a basic numerical model of ocean circulation. It has been shown that the GKF method has a number of advantages over the EnOI method in particular, it provides the better temporal forecast error. In addition, the results of numerical experiments with different data assimilation methods are analyzed and their results are compared with the control experiment, i.e., the HYCOM model without data assimilation. The computation results are also compared with independent observations. The conclusion is made that the studied assimilation methods can be applied to forecast the state of the ocean.

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K. P. Belyaev

Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences; Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences

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Email: kosbel55@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Moscow; Moscow

A. A. Kuleshov

Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences

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Email: andrew_kuleshov@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow

I. N. Smirnov

Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University

Email: andrew_kuleshov@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow

C. A. S. Tanajura

Federal University of Bahia

Email: andrew_kuleshov@mail.ru
Brazil, Salvador

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