Correcting surface winds by assimilating high-frequency radar surface currents in the German Bight
Surface winds are crucial for accurately modeling the surface circulation in the coastal ocean. In the present work, high-frequency radar surface currents are assimilated using an ensemble scheme which aims to obtain improved surface winds taking into account European Centre for Medium-Range Weather...
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Published in | Ocean dynamics Vol. 61; no. 5; pp. 599 - 610 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article Web Resource |
Language | English |
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Berlin/Heidelberg
Springer-Verlag
01.05.2011
Springer Nature B.V Springer Science & Business Media B.V |
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Summary: | Surface winds are crucial for accurately modeling the surface circulation in the coastal ocean. In the present work, high-frequency radar surface currents are assimilated using an ensemble scheme which aims to obtain improved surface winds taking into account European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts winds as a first guess and surface current measurements. The objective of this study is to show that wind forcing can be improved using an approach similar to parameter estimation in ensemble data assimilation. Like variational assimilation schemes, the method provides an improved wind field based on surface current measurements. However, the technique does not require an adjoint, and it is thus easier to implement. In addition, it does not rely on a linearization of the model dynamics. The method is validated directly by comparing the analyzed wind speed to independent in situ measurements and indirectly by assessing the impact of the corrected winds on model sea surface temperature (SST) relative to satellite SST. |
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Bibliography: | European COastal-shelf sea OPerational observing and forecasting system (ECOOP) scopus-id:2-s2.0-79957894698 |
ISSN: | 1616-7341 1616-7228 1616-7228 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10236-010-0369-0 |