Optimising assimilation of sea ice concentration in an Earth system model with a multicategory sea ice model
A data assimilation method capable of constraining the sea ice of an Earth system model in a dynamically consistent manner has the potential to enhance the accuracy of climate reconstructions and predictions. Finding such a method is challenging because the sea ice dynamics is highly non-linear, and...
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ftvliz:oai:oma.vliz.be:295475 2023-05-15T13:54:11+02:00 Optimising assimilation of sea ice concentration in an Earth system model with a multicategory sea ice model Kimmritz, M. Counillon, F. Bitz, C.M. Massonnet, F. Bethke, I. Gao, Y. 2018 application/pdf https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/313313.pdf en eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/000426713500001 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/doi.org/10.1080/16000870.2018.1435945 https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/313313.pdf info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess %3Ci%3ETellus,+Ser.+A,+Dyn.+meteorol.+oceanogr.+70%281%29%3C%2Fi%3E%3A+1435945.+%3Ca+href%3D%22https%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1080%2F16000870.2018.1435945%22+target%3D%22_blank%22%3Ehttps%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1080%2F16000870.2018.1435945%3C%2Fa%3E info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2018 ftvliz https://doi.org/10.1080/16000870.2018.1435945 2022-05-01T10:59:29Z A data assimilation method capable of constraining the sea ice of an Earth system model in a dynamically consistent manner has the potential to enhance the accuracy of climate reconstructions and predictions. Finding such a method is challenging because the sea ice dynamics is highly non-linear, and sea ice variables are strongly non-Gaussian distributed and tightly coupled to the rest of the Earth system - particularly thermodynamically with the ocean. We investigate key practical implementations for assimilating sea ice concentration - the predominant source of observations in polar regions - with the Norwegian Climate Prediction Model that combines the Norwegian Earth System Model with the Ensemble Kalman Filter. The performances of the different configurations are investigated by conducting 10-year reanalyses in a perfect model framework. First, we find that with a flow-dependent assimilation method, strongly coupled ocean-sea ice assimilation outperforms weakly coupled (sea ice only) assimilation. An attempt to prescribe the covariance between the ocean temperature and the sea ice concentration performed poorly. Extending the ocean updates below the mixed layer is slightly beneficial for the Arctic hydrography. Second, we find that solving the analysis for the multicategory instead of the aggregated ice state variables greatly reduces the errors in the ice state. Updating the ice volumes induces a weak drift in the bias for the thick ice category that relates to the postprocessing of unphysical thicknesses. Preserving the ice thicknesses for each category during the assimilation mitigates the drift without degrading the performance. The robustness and reliability of the optimal setting is demonstrated for a 20-year reanalysis. The error of sea ice concentration reduces by 50% (65%), sea ice thickness by 25% (35%), sea surface temperature by 33% (23%) and sea surface salinity by 11% (25%) in the Arctic (Antarctic) compared to a reference run without assimilation. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Arctic Sea ice Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ): Open Marine Archive (OMA) Antarctic Arctic Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography 70 1 1 23 |
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A data assimilation method capable of constraining the sea ice of an Earth system model in a dynamically consistent manner has the potential to enhance the accuracy of climate reconstructions and predictions. Finding such a method is challenging because the sea ice dynamics is highly non-linear, and sea ice variables are strongly non-Gaussian distributed and tightly coupled to the rest of the Earth system - particularly thermodynamically with the ocean. We investigate key practical implementations for assimilating sea ice concentration - the predominant source of observations in polar regions - with the Norwegian Climate Prediction Model that combines the Norwegian Earth System Model with the Ensemble Kalman Filter. The performances of the different configurations are investigated by conducting 10-year reanalyses in a perfect model framework. First, we find that with a flow-dependent assimilation method, strongly coupled ocean-sea ice assimilation outperforms weakly coupled (sea ice only) assimilation. An attempt to prescribe the covariance between the ocean temperature and the sea ice concentration performed poorly. Extending the ocean updates below the mixed layer is slightly beneficial for the Arctic hydrography. Second, we find that solving the analysis for the multicategory instead of the aggregated ice state variables greatly reduces the errors in the ice state. Updating the ice volumes induces a weak drift in the bias for the thick ice category that relates to the postprocessing of unphysical thicknesses. Preserving the ice thicknesses for each category during the assimilation mitigates the drift without degrading the performance. The robustness and reliability of the optimal setting is demonstrated for a 20-year reanalysis. The error of sea ice concentration reduces by 50% (65%), sea ice thickness by 25% (35%), sea surface temperature by 33% (23%) and sea surface salinity by 11% (25%) in the Arctic (Antarctic) compared to a reference run without assimilation. |
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Optimising assimilation of sea ice concentration in an Earth system model with a multicategory sea ice model |
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Optimising assimilation of sea ice concentration in an Earth system model with a multicategory sea ice model |
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