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© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Weak constraint four-dimensional variational data assimilation in a model of the California Current System
Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95062, USA
Polly J. Smith
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AX, UK
Ralph F. Milliff
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80304, USA
Jerome Fiechter
Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95062, USA
Christopher K. Wikle
Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Christopher A. Edwards
Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95062, USA
Andrew M. Moore
Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95062, USA
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We present a method for estimating intrinsic model error in a model of the California Current System. The estimated model error covariance matrix is used in the weak constraint formulation of the Regional Ocean Modeling System, four-dimensional variational data assimilation system, and comparison of the circulation estimates computed in this way show demonstrable improvement to those computed in the strong constraint formulation, where intrinsic model error is not taken into account.
We present a method for estimating intrinsic model error in a model of the California Current...