Research Article

Modifying Covariance Localization to Mitigate Sampling Errors from the Ensemble Data Assimilation

Table 2

Experiment settings using the SPEEDY model to verify the sensitivity of the ensemble size for the CL and CL-MC filters.

ExptE75E100E125E200

Ensemble size75100125200
Horizontal localization radius2000 km
Vertical localization radius (SD)0.12ln
Initial time and date0000 UTC 1 Jan 1982
Final time and date0000 UTC 1 Jan 1992
InflationAdaptive (1.045/1.022)Adaptive (1.112/1.018)Adaptive (1.028/1.012)Adaptive (1.052/1.002)