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For the EAC region, we combine a high-resolution state-of-the-art numerical ocean model with a variety of traditional and newly available observations using an advanced variational data assimilation scheme. The numerical model is configured using the Regional Ocean Modelling System (ROMS 3.4) and takes boundary forcing from the BlueLink ReANalysis (BRAN3). For the data assimilation, we use an Incremental Strong- Constraint 4-Dimensional Variational (IS4D-Var) scheme, which uses the model dynamics to perturb the initial conditions, atmospheric forcing, and boundary conditions, such that the modelled ocean state better fits and is in balance with the observations. In addition to the traditional data streams (satellite derived SSH and SST, Argo profiling floats and XBT lines) we exploit newly available observations collected by Australia's Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS). These include velocity and hydrographic observations from a deep-water mooring array (the EAC transport array, 27.5S) and several moorings on the continental shelf (27.5S, 30S and 34S), surface radial velocities from a high-frequency (HF) radar array (at Coffs Harbour, 30S), and temperature and salinity observations from ocean gliders.Issued: 2020
Data time period: 2012-01-01 to 2013-12-31
Data time period:
Five-day forecasts and analyses are available over the 2-year period. Linearity experiments indicated that for this model configuration, the linear assumption remains acceptable for typical perturbations over 5 days, so we chose that as our window size. We overlap the 5-day assimilation windows by 1 day, such that each subsequent assimilation cycle is initialised 4 days after the start of the previous 5-day cycle.
Spatial Coverage And Location
text: 25-41.5S, 147-162E
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- DOI : 10.26190/5EBE1F389DD87
- Handle : 1959.4/resource/collection/resdatac_1020/1
