Progress, challenges, and future steps in data assimilation for convection‐permitting numerical weather prediction: Report on the virtual meeting held on 10 and 12 …

G Hu, SL Dance, RN Bannister… - Atmospheric Science …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In November 2021, the Royal Meteorological Society Data Assimilation (DA)
Special Interest Group and the University of Reading hosted a virtual meeting on the topic of …

Sampling and misspecification errors in the estimation of observation‐error covariance matrices using observation‐minus‐background and observation‐minus …

G Hu, SL Dance - … Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Specification of the observation‐error covariance matrix for data assimilation
systems affects the observation information content retained by the analysis, particularly for …

Impact of correlated observation errors on the conditioning of variational data assimilation problems

O Goux, S Gürol, AT Weaver… - … Linear Algebra with …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
An important class of nonlinear weighted least‐squares problems arises from the
assimilation of observations in atmospheric and ocean models. In variational data …

Improving the condition number of estimated covariance matrices

JM Tabeart, SL Dance, AS Lawless… - Tellus A: Dynamic …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
High dimensional error covariance matrices and their inverses are used to weight the
contribution of observation and background information in data assimilation procedures. As …

A practical assimilation approach to extract smaller‐scale information from observations with spatially correlated errors: An idealized study

J Bédard, M Buehner - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
It is still common to neglect the spatial error correlations of assimilated observations in
numerical weather prediction systems because no practical approach is available to account …

Modelling spatially correlated observation errors in variational data assimilation using a diffusion operator on an unstructured mesh

O Guillet, AT Weaver, X Vasseur… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a method for representing spatially correlated observation errors in variational
data assimilation. The method is based on the numerical solution of a diffusion equation, a …

Assimilation of Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Lightning Imager (LI) pseudo-observations in AROME-France–proof of concept

F Erdmann, O Caumont, E Defer - Natural Hazards and Earth …, 2023 - nhess.copernicus.org
This study develops a lightning data assimilation (LDA) scheme for the regional, convection-
permitting numerical weather prediction (NWP) model AROME-France. The LDA scheme …

Efficient computation of matrix–vector products with full observation weighting matrices in data assimilation

G Hu, SL Dance - … Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies have demonstrated improved skill in numerical weather prediction via the
use of spatially correlated observation error covariance information in data assimilation …

The impact of using reconditioned correlated observation‐error covariance matrices in the Met Office 1D‐Var system

JM Tabeart, SL Dance, AS Lawless… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent developments in numerical weather prediction have led to the use of correlated
observation‐error covariance (OEC) information in data assimilation and forecasting …

All-Sky Assimilation of GOES-16 Water Vapor Channels in Consideration of Cloud-Dependent Interchannel Observation-Error Correlations

C Feng, Z Pu - Monthly Weather Review, 2025 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on the Geostationary Operational
Environmental Satellite-16 (GOES-16) includes three water vapor channels (8, 9, and 10) …