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标题：A dilemma of the uniqueness of weather and climate model closure parameters
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作者：Janne Hakkarainen ; Antti Solonen ; Alexander Ilin 等
期刊名称：Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography
电子版ISSN：1600-0870
出版年度：2013
卷号：65
页码：1-8
DOI：10.3402/tellusa.v65i0.20147
语种：English
摘要：Parameterisation schemes of subgrid-scale physical processes in atmospheric models contain so-called closure parameters. Their precise values are not generally known; thus, they are subject to fine-tuning for achieving optimal model performance. In this article, we show that there is a dilemma concerning the optimal parameter values: an identical prediction model formulation can have two different optimal closure parameter value settings depending on the level of approximations made in the data assimilation component of the prediction system. This result tends to indicate that the prediction model re-tuning in large-scale systems is not only needed when the prediction model undergoes a major change, but also when the data assimilation component is updated. Moreover, we advocate an accurate albeit expensive method based on so-called filter likelihood for the closure parameter estimation that is applicable in fine-tuning of both prediction model and data assimilation system parameters. In this article, we use a modified Lorenz-95 system as a prediction model and extended Kalman filter and ensemble adjustment Kalman filter for data assimilation. With this setup, we can compute the filter likelihood for the chosen parameters using the output of the two versions of the Kalman filter and apply a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm to explore the parameter posterior distributions.
关键词：model tuning; Markov chain Monte Carlo; likelihood; filter formulation