Assimilation of Aerosol Observations in the NASA GEOS Model

• Main Authors: Buchard, Virginie, da Silva, Arlindo, Holdaway, Dan, Todling, Ricardo
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Geosciences (General); Merra; Aerosol Robotic Network
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20190032011

In the GEOS near real-time system, as well as in MERRA-2 which is the latest reanalysis produced at NASA's Global Modeling Assimilation Office (GMAO), the assimilation of aerosol observations is performed by means of a so-called analysis splitting method. The prognostic model is based on the GE...