Correlation-Cutoff Method for Covariance Localization in Strongly Coupled Data Assimilation

Monthly Weather Review - Tập 146 Số 9 - Trang 2881-2889 - 2018
T. Yoshida1, Eugenia Kalnay2
1Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, Maryland, and Climate Prediction Division, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan
2Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, Maryland

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AbstractStrongly coupled data assimilation (SCDA), where observations of one component of a coupled model are allowed to directly impact the analysis of other components, sometimes fails to improve the analysis accuracy with an ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) as compared with weakly coupled data assimilation (WCDA). It is well known that an observation’s area of influence should be localized in EnKFs since the assimilation of distant observations often degrades the analysis because of spurious correlations. This study derives a method to estimate the reduction of the analysis error variance by using estimates of the cross covariances between the background errors of the state variables in an idealized situation. It is shown that the reduction of analysis error variance is proportional to the squared background error correlation between the analyzed and observed variables. From this, the authors propose an offline method to systematically select which observations should be assimilated into which model state variable by cutting off the assimilation of observations when the squared background error correlation between the observed and analyzed variables is small. The proposed method is tested with the local ensemble transform Kalman filter (LETKF) and a nine-variable coupled model, in which three Lorenz models with different time scales are coupled with each other. The covariance localization with the correlation-cutoff method achieves an analysis more accurate than either the full SCDA or the WCDA methods, especially with smaller ensemble sizes.

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