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General order for discussion Does balance matter? What kinds of metric should be used to measure imbalance? Algorithm details Other types of balance What about unbalanced flow? Use of “toy models”. Anything else?

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Page 1: General order for discussion

General order for discussion

• Does balance matter?• What kinds of metric should be used to

measure imbalance? • Algorithm details• Other types of balance• What about unbalanced flow?• Use of “toy models”.• Anything else?

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Metrics

• What kind of metric should be used to measure imbalance?– Separate by scale?

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Measuring gravitational “noise”

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Does balance matter?

• Does a balanced analysis matter, or can we just initialise?

• Does a balanced background matter?– Used to estimate background error

covariances

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Algorithm details

• Are some flavours of EnKF inherently better for balance?– Perturbed obs, single vs double, ETKF vs

EnSRF vs EAKF, sequential vs all-at-once, …

• Are some control variable choices better for balance in Var systems?

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Other types of balance

• Balance issues concerning moisture

• Balances on the mesoscale

• Tropical cyclones

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Convection and Gravity-Wave Generation

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What about unbalanced flow?

• Models can simulate several regimes, e.g

• Mesosphere

• Mesoscale

• Tropics

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Koshyk et al. (1999)

troposphere

stratosphere

mesosphere

Rot KE Div KE

RotKE = DivKE around n=20

RotKE = DivKE around n=10

Kinetic energy spectrum Kinetic energy spectrum changes with heightchanges with height

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Toy models

• What are the desirable properties of a toy model for studying balance in an assimilation system?

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Anything else?

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Forecast and obs error variances increase with height

Nezlin et al. (2008)

CMAM ens-based T forecast error std

T profiles over one night from lidar

http://pcl.physics.uwo.ca/science/temperature/R.J. Sica (U Western Ontario)

42.9 N, 81.4 W