论文信息 - Combined use of sensitivity information and observations to improve meteorological forecasts: A feasibility study applied to the 'Christmas storm' case

Combined use of sensitivity information and observations to improve meteorological forecasts: A feasibility study applied to the 'Christmas storm' case

An analysis correction method is presented that uses directly the sensitivity information coming from gradient fields at initial time to perform an alternative forecast. The method consists in imposing, at initial time, a 'sensitive' structure to the perturbation which is first computed by adjoint tools. The tuning of the perturbation amplitude is obtained by reducing the distance to the observations at the locations where the sensitive structure is of significant amplitude.

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