Surface Data Assmilation with GSI

Submitted by pescribaa on Fri, 05/28/2021 - 01:16

Hello everybody!

Trying to do Surface Data Assimilation only (not upper air Data Assimilation) with GSI. This is assimilate screen level obs (u/v10m, T/RH2m, SfcPress, Z0) to update soil/surface fields. I can do this with HARMONIE-AROME model (IFS/ARPEGE based), because SurfaceDA and UpperAirDA are separate tasks. I have been reading the GSI user guide but I have not found how to do this. Does anyone know if this is possible? And if so, where should I start looking at?

Thanks in advance!

Pau Escribà

Spanish Met Agency (AEMET)

Hi Pau,

 

I think what you would like to do can be configured in the convinfo file. In section 4.3(.3) of the user's guide you can read about setting flags to control which data is used and how. If you know the type codes for the surface obs you would like to assimilate, you can turn off all other types with the iuse flag.

I hope this helps!

 

Will