Geoscientific model development · 2015 · 35 citations · 32 references
Natural SciencesEarth SciencesEnvironmental SciencesAtmospheric ScienceClimate ScienceEnvironmental ModelingCarbon AssimilationCarbon CycleClimate ModelingData AssimilationEnsemble ForecastingEnsemble MethodsCarbon Dioxide FluxesCo2 AssimilationEcosystem Carbon FluxesEnsemble Data AssimilationEnsemble Kalman FilterEnsemble Kalman FilteringEnsemble-based Data AssimilationTerrestrial Carbon Fluxes
Abstract. A Global Carbon Assimilation System based on the ensemble Kalman filter (GCAS-EK) is developed for assimilating atmospheric CO2 data into an ecosystem model to simultaneously estimate the surface carbon fluxes and atmospheric CO2 distribution. This assimilation approach is similar to CarbonTracker, but with several new developments, including inclusion of atmospheric CO2 concentration in state vectors, using the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) with 1-week assimilation windows, using analysis states to iteratively estimate ensemble forecast errors, and a maximum likelihood estimation of the inflation factors of the forecast and observation errors. The proposed assimilation approach is used to estimate the terrestrial ecosystem carbon fluxes and atmospheric CO2 distributions from 2002 to 2008. The results show that this assimilation approach can effectively reduce the biases and uncertainties of the carbon fluxes simulated by the ecosystem model.
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