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Soil moisture generation at ECMWF
Gisela Seuffert and Pedro Viterbo
European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts
ELDAS Interim Data Co-ordination Meeting17./18.09.2003
Plans ( ELDAS 1st progress meeting)
Assimilation aspects:• Minimize the combined errors in prediction of soil moisture, latent heat flux and
screen level observations
• Further mw-Tb assimilation experiments (viewing angle, times)
• Assimilation of heating rates
Technical aspects:• Paper(s) focusing on the
- new features of assimilation method - assimilation of mw-Tb
- (assimilation of heating rates)
• Summer 2003: Build production system for the annual data base
• End of 2003: Start production
Action: no further development
Action: in production
Action: SCM test runs
Action: 2 papers:-published in GRL (T,RH,Tb)-Cond. accepted at JHM (OI, EKF)
Action: still pending
Soil moisture analysis systems
Optimal Interpolation:• Used in the operational ECMWF-
forecast since 1999 (Douville et al., 2000)
• Fixed statistically derived forecast errors
• Criteria for the applicability of the method
- atmospheric and soil exceptions
- corrections when T and RH error are negatively correlated
Extended Kalman Filter:• Used in the operational DWD-
forecast since 2000 (Hess, 2001) *
• Updated forecast errors
• Criteria for the applicability of the method- no ‘direct’ atmospheric exceptions- soil exceptions still to be tested
* Changes:- Assimilation of 2m- T and RH, mw-Tb
- Model forecast operator accounts for water transfer between soil layers
- Test adaptive EKF
Experiment Design
Atm. initial conditions +dynamics forcing from
ECMWF reanalysis (ERA40)
Single-column model of theECMWF NWP model
+ microwave emissivity model
First guess: T2m,RH2m,HR(?)
Soil moisture analysis schemeOI or Extended Kalman Filter
Soil moisture Background error
Increments (daily)
Observations: T2m,RH2m,HR
Observation of precipitation + radiation
Production system for soil moisture
Starting point:• Experiments based on Single Column version of the ECMWF’s NWP
model (SCM)
Requirements:1. 0.2 x 0.2 regular lat/lon grid for Europe (15W-38E, 35N-72N)2. Computer time (cost efficiency)3. Annual database for 1.10.1999 – 31.12.2000 control system
Solutions:Add 1: run n x n SCMs over Europe (each SCM runs independently) Add 2: - run SCMs only for land points (about 25 000 SCMs)
- I/O consideration- High degree of parallelisation in an easy way balance saving of computer time and time for
programmingAdd 3: Supervisor Monitor Scheduler (SMS)
Production system for soil moisture(2)
Progress of work:
• Changes to the SCM source code– SCM structure has been changed to run n x n SCMs in one run
(single point area)
– I/O netcdf I/O grib
– OpenMP parallelization (up to 8 processes on one thread)
• Changes to the soil moisture analysis (SMA)– SMA has been changed to run n x n points in one run
– I/O netcdf I/O grib
• Forcing data– Composition of forcing data changed from one point to n x n points
– O netcdf O grib
• Control Structure– First SMS layout
1) Soil moisture analysis
1) Get forcing data from Mars archive2) Prepare data for SCM INPUT
1) Background run
1) Get forcing data from Mars archive2) Prepare data for SCM INPUT
1) Soil moisture perturbation
1) Final (soil moisture) trajectory 2) Check success of SMA (Costfunctions)
1) Forecast run
1) Final (soil temperature) trajectory2) Check success of STA (costfunctions)
1) Soil temperature analysis
1) Soil temperature perturbation
Production system for soil moisture (3)
• What is still missing?– Interpolation from gaussian grid to reg. 0.2 x 0.2 lat/lon grid
– Incorporation of ELDAS maps (e.g. land cover)
– Incorporation of ELDAS forcing data (precipitation, radiation)
– Archiving of output in MARS
– Observation (Re-analysis) data of 2mT and 2mRH for SMA +STA
– Post-processing routines for parameters especially asked for by ELDAS validation
– ECMWF orography problems (LW)
• Final tests
Time schedule(1)
Estimated Production Time:• Analysis for one day: - one SCM run for 1000 pixels needs 5 min on 8 nodes ~ 2 hours for 25000 pixels - 5 x SCMs are needed 10 hours for 25000 pixels
approx. 5-6 months for annual database further parallelization needed (splitting Europe into boxes) (MPI, distributed memory)
Time schedule(2)
Under normal circumstances:•6 weeks required to include missing bits and pieces
•2 weeks final tests
Start production by November/December
Expected Start of production:
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Assimilating SHR, T+RH, T+RH+SHR
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Corr. Bias RMS0.94 3.46 2.000.81 0.89 2.440.79 0.97 2.530.94 2.95 1.58
Soilmoisture
Days when SHR is available (50% data missing, 25% cloudy)
Variable SHR observation error depends on cloud fraction flag (how many hours are cloud free):• cloud fraction flag of neighbouring pixels• cloud fraction flag of pixel