Application of Coupled Bred Vectors to Seasonal-to-Interannual Forecasting and Ocean Data Assimilation

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Title:	Application of Coupled Bred Vectors to Seasonal-to-Interannual Forecasting and Ocean Data Assimilation
Authors:	Yang,SC;Keppenne,C;Rienecker,M;Kalnay,E
Contributors:	大氣物理研究所
Keywords:	GENERAL-CIRCULATION MODEL;ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER;TROPICAL PACIFIC-OCEAN;ANALYSIS SCHEMES;EL-NINO;PART I;SALINITY;ERROR;TEMPERATURE;PROPAGATION
Date:	2009
Issue Date:	2010-06-29 18:36:09 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	中央大學
Abstract:	Coupled bred vectors (BVs) generated from the NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) coupled general circulation model are designed to capture the uncertainties related to slowly varying coupled instabilities. Two applications of the BVs are investigated in this study. First, the coupled BVs are used as initial perturbations for ensemble-forecasting purposes. Results show that the seasonal-to-interannual variability forecast skill can be improved when the oceanic and atmospheric perturbations are initialized with coupled BVs. The impact is particularly significant when the forecasts are initialized from the cold phase of tropical Pacific SST (e. g., August and November), because at these times the early coupled model errors, not accounted for in the BVs, are small. Second, the structure of the BVs is applied to construct hybrid background error covariances carrying flow-dependent information for the ocean data assimilation. Results show that the accuracy of the ocean analyses is improved when Gaussian background covariances are supplemented with a term obtained from the BVs. The improvement is especially noticeable for the salinity field.
Relation:	JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
Appears in Collections:	[Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Graduate Institute of Atmospheric Physics ] journal & Dissertation

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