《Assimilating the alongtrack sea level anomaly into the regional ocean modeling system using the ensemble optimal interpolation》.pdfVIP

Acta Oceanol. Sin., 2014, Vol. 33, No. 7, P. 72–82 DOI: 10.1007/s13131-014-0469-7 E-mail: hyxbe@263.net Assimilating the along-track sea level anomaly into the regional ocean modeling system using the ensemble optimal interpolation 1,3 2,3 4 3 5 3 LYU Guokun , WANG Hui , ZHU Jiang , WANG Dakui *, XIE Jiping , LIU Guimei 1 Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China 2 College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China 3 Key Laboratory of Research on Marine Hazards Forecasting, National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, State Oceanic Administration, Beijing 100081, China 4 State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China 5 International Center for Climate and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China Received 28 February 2013; accepted 22 May 2013 ©The Chinese Society of Oceanography and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 Abstract The ensemble optimal interpolation (EnOI) is applied to the regional ocean modeling system (ROMS) with the ability to assimilate the along-track sea level anomaly (TSLA). This system is tested with an eddy-resolv- ing system of the South China Sea (SCS). Background errors are derived from a running seasonal ensemble to account for the seasonal variability within the SCS. A fifth-order localization function with a 250 km lo- calization radius is chosen to reduce the negative effects of sampling errors. The data assimilation system is tested from January 2004 to December 2006. The results show that the root mean square deviation (RMSD) of the sea level anomaly decreased from 10.57 to 6.70 cm, which represents a 36.6% r