Implementation of multidomain Unified Forward Operators (UFO) within the Joint Effort for Data assimilation Integration (JEDI): Ocean applications

Hamideh Ebrahimi, JCSDA/ GMAO, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Guillaume Vernires, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, United States, Rahul Mahajan, NASA/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Travis Cole Sluka, JCSDA/UCAR, Boulder, United States and Daniel Holdaway, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Abstract:
The Joint Center for Satellite Data assimilation (JCSDA) is a multi-agency research center to improve the use of satellite data for analyzing and predicting the weather, the ocean, the climate and the environment. The (Sea-Ice Ocean and Coupled Assimilation) SOCA as one of the JCSDA projects, focuses on the application of JEDI to marine data assimilation . One of the goals of SOCA is to make use of surface-sensitive radiances to constrain sea-ice and upper ocean fields (e.g., salinity, temperature, sea-ice fraction, sea-ice temperature, etc.).

The focus of this research is to build the first elements toward an ocean/atmosphere coupled data assimilation capability within JEDI, with a focus on supporting and developing the assimilation of radiance observations sensitive to the ocean and atmosphere . We will present preliminary results of the direct radiance assimilation of surface sensitive microwave radiances focusing on Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Imager (GMI) for the SST Constraint and Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) for the Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) constraint.

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