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Ensemble-Based Parameter Estimation in a Coupled General Circulation Model
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DOI：10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00406.1.png)
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Parameter estimation provides a potentially powerful approach to reduce model bias for complex climate models. Here, in a twin experiment framework, the authors perform the first parameter estimation in a fully coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model using an ensemble coupled data assimilation system facilitated with parameter estimation. The authors first perform single-parameter estimation and then multiple-parameter estimation. In the case of the single-parameter estimation, the error of the parameter [solar penetration depth (SPD)] is reduced by over 90% after similar to 40 years of assimilation of the conventional observations of monthly sea surface temperature (SST) and salinity (SSS). The results of multiple-parameter estimation are less reliable than those of single-parameter estimation when only the monthly SST and SSS are assimilated. Assimilating additional observations of atmospheric data of temperature and wind improves the reliability of multiple-parameter estimation. The errors of the parameters are reduced by 90% in; 8 years of assimilation. Finally, the improved parameters also improve the model climatology. With the optimized parameters, the bias of the climatology of SST is reduced by similar to 90%. Overall, this study suggests the feasibility of ensemble-based parameter estimation in a fully coupled general circulation model.
Keywords:
EARTH SYSTEM MODEL
DATA ASSIMILATION
KALMAN FILTER
CLIMATE ESTIMATION
EQUATORIAL PACIFIC
TROPICAL PACIFIC
PART I
VARIABILITY
STATE
HOLOCENE
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