Quasi-static ensemble variational data assimilation: a theoretical and numerical study with the iterative ensemble Kalman smoother

Fillion, Anthony; Bocquet, Marc; Gratton, Serge

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-25-315-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-25-315-2018

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27 Apr 2018

Research article |

| 27 Apr 2018

Quasi-static ensemble variational data assimilation: a theoretical and numerical study with the iterative ensemble Kalman smoother

Anthony Fillion, Marc Bocquet, and Serge Gratton

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RC1: 'Review of the manuscript “Quasi static ensemble variational data assimilation” by Anthony Fillion, Marc Bocquet and Serge Gratton', Carlos Pires, 15 Dec 2017
RC2: 'Comments on the NPGD paper by Fillion et. al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Jan 2018
AC1: 'Response to Referee 1', Anthony Fillion, 20 Feb 2018
AC2: 'Response to Referee 2', Anthony Fillion, 20 Feb 2018

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (12 Mar 2018) by Natale Alberto Carrassi

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Short summary

This study generalizes a paper by Pires et al. (1996) to state-of-the-art data assimilation techniques, such as the iterative ensemble Kalman smoother (IEnKS). We show that the longer the time window over which observations are assimilated, the better the accuracy of the IEnKS. Beyond a critical time length that we estimate, we show that this accuracy finally degrades. We show that the use of the quasi-static minimizations but generalized to the IEnKS yields a significantly improved accuracy.