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Adjoint Data Assimilation of the Flow on the Southern Flank of Georges Bank: March?June 1999

Changsheng Chen and Qichun Xu    

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An adjoint data assimilation method was incorporated into the ECOM-si coastal ocean circulation model and applied to assimilate the flow field on the southern flank of Georges Bank from March to June 1999. The model was driven by tidal forcing consisting of ten tidal constituents at the open boundary, observed winds, and surface heat fluxes. Numerical experiments were conducted following a strategy to understand the critical issues affecting the efficiency and accuracy of the assimilated flow field. The adjoint data assimilation method significantly improved the computational accuracy of subtidal currents, especially for the along-isobath velocity. The integration window length and iteration number were two parameters affecting the assimilation convergence rate toward the observations. In such a nonlinear dynamical system, using a window length close to the M2 tidal period could make the adjoint model difficult to converge, no matter how many iterations were made. Reducing the time interval for the window length speeded up the convergence rate, but it was paid out with the sacrifice of statistical confidence. This assimilation experiment used a 6-h window length, which led to a faster convergence rate in the first ten iterations. The best-assimilated fields that satisfied the error criteria were obtained as the iteration number increased.

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