Altimeter significant wave height data assimilation in the South China Sea using Ensemble Optimal Interpolation -- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology,2015,33(5):1309-1319

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	CAO Lei, HOU Yijun, QI Peng. Altimeter significant wave height data assimilation in the South China Sea using Ensemble Optimal Interpolation[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2015, 33(5): 1309-1319

Altimeter significant wave height data assimilation in the South China Sea using Ensemble Optimal Interpolation

CAO Lei^1,2,3, HOU Yijun^1,2, QI Peng^1,2

1 Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China;
2 Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China;
3 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Abstract:

The application of ensemble optimal interpolation in wave data assimilation in the South China Sea is presented.A sampling strategy for a stationary ensemble is first discussed.The stationary ensemble is constructed by sampling from 24-h-interval significant wave height differences of model outputs over a long period, and is validated with altimeter significant wave height data, indicating that the ensemble errors have nearly the same probability distribution function.The background error covariance fields expressed by the ensemble sampled are anisotropic.Updating the static samples by season, the seasonal characteristics of the correlation coefficient distribution are reflected.Hindcast experiments including assimilation and control runs are conducted for the summer of 2010 in the South China Sea.The effect of ensemble optimal interpolation assimilation on wave hindcasts is validated using different satellite altimeter data (Jason-1 and 2 and ENVISAT) and buoy observations.It is found that the ensemble-optimal-interpolation-based wave assimilation scheme for the South China Sea achieves improvements similar to those of the previous optimal-interpolation-based scheme, indicating that the practical application of this computationally cheap ensemble method is feasible.

Key words: ensemble optimal interpolation|wave assimilation|stationary ensemble

Received: 2014-09-28 Revised: 2015-01-29

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