| Title | Quality assessment of a 1985-2007 Mediterranean sea reanalysis |
|---|---|
| Publication Type | Articolo su Rivista peer-reviewed |
| Year of Publication | 2011 |
| Authors | Adani, Mario, Dobricic S., and Pinardi N. |
| Journal | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology |
| Volume | 28 |
| Pagination | 569-589 |
| ISSN | 07390572 |
| Keywords | Air sea flux, Atmospheric temperature, Computer simulation, data assimilation, Data processing, data set, Data sets, Errors, Field variability, Forecast and analysis, in situ measurement, In-situ, Large eddy, large eddy simulation, Mean field, Mediterranean Sea, numerical model, observational method, Optimal interpolation, qualitative analysis, Quality assessment, Reanalysis, Reduced order, Root-mean square errors, Salinity, Salinity fields, Salinity measurement, sea level, Sea level anomaly, sea surface temperature, Sea surface temperatures, thermocline, three-dimensional modeling, Variational analysis, Vertical temperature |
| Abstract | A simulation and two reanalyses from 1985 to 2007 have been produced for the Mediterranean Sea using different assimilation schemes: a reduced-order optimal interpolation [SystemforOcean Forecast and Analysis (SOFA)] and a three-dimensional variational scheme (OceanVar). The observational dataset consists of vertical temperature and salinity in situ profiles and along-track satellite sea level anomalies; daily mean fields of satellite sea surface temperature are used for correcting the air-sea fluxes. This paper assesses the quality of the reanalyses with respect to observations and the simulation. Both the SOFA and OceanVar schemes give very similar root-mean-square errors and biases for temperature and salinity fields compared with the assimilated observations. The largest errors are at the thermocline level and in regions of large eddy field variability. However, OceanVar gives 20% better results for sea level anomaly root-mean-square error. © 2011 American Meteorological Society. |
| Notes | cited By 25 |
| URL | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79958696019&doi=10.1175%2f2010JTECHO798.1&partnerID=40&md5=63811aac0215bd3f438108ef6b2c47d3 |
| DOI | 10.1175/2010JTECHO798.1 |
| Citation Key | Adani2011569 |
