An Economical Approach to Flow-Adaptive Moderation of Spurious Ensemble Correlations and Its Application in the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition-Based Ensemble Four Dimensional Variational Assimilation Method

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to describe an economical approach to an existing adaptive localization technique and its implementation in the proper orthogonal decomposition-based ensemble four-dimensional variational assimilation method (PODEn4DVar). Owing to the applications of the sparse processing and EOF decomposition techniques, the computational costs of this proposed sparse flow-adaptive moderation (SFAM) localization scheme are significantly reduced. The effectiveness of PODEn4DVar with SFAM localization is demonstrated by using the Lorenz-96 model in comparison with the Smoothed ENsemble Correlations Raised to a Power (SENCORP) and static localization schemes, separately. The performance of PODEn4DVar with SFAM localization shows a moderate improvement over the schemes with SENCORP and static localization, with low computational costs under the imperfect model.

Keywords:

• proper orthogonal decomposition-based ensemble four-dimensional variational assimilation
• sparse flow-adaptive moderation localization