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Quantitative Design of Observational Networks M. Scholze, R. Giering, T. Kaminski, E. Koffi P. Rayner, and M. Vo ß beck

Quantitative Design of Observational Networks M. Scholze, R. Giering, T. Kaminski, E. Koffi P. Rayner, and M. Vo ß beck . Future GHG observation WS , Edinburgh, Jan 2008. Motivation .

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Quantitative Design of Observational Networks M. Scholze, R. Giering, T. Kaminski, E. Koffi P. Rayner, and M. Vo ß beck

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  1. Quantitative Design of Observational NetworksM. Scholze, R. Giering, T. Kaminski, E. Koffi P. Rayner, and M. Voßbeck Future GHG observation WS, Edinburgh, Jan 2008

  2. Motivation • Can construct a machinery that, for a given network and a given target quantity, can approximate the uncertainty with which the value of the target quantity is constrained by the observations • What is the question?

  3. Outline • Motivation • Example • Method • Demo • Which assumptions? • Links to further information • Discussion -> Potential application or UK GHG monitoring strategy, CCnet proposal?

  4. Example Linear Model • From Rayner et al. (Tellus, 1996) • Inverse model based on atmospheric tracer model • Extend given atmospheric network CO2 • Target quantity: Global Ocean uptake • Figure shows additional station locations for two experiments, “1” additional site allowed / “3” additional sites allows

  5. Posterior Uncertainty • If the model was linear: • and data + priors have Gaussian PDF, then the posterior PDF is also Gaussian: • with mean value: • and uncertainty: • which are related to the Hessian of the cost function: • For a non-linear model, this is an approximation -

  6. uncertainty from model error total uncertainty uncertainty from observational error Model and Observational Uncertainties • No observation/no model is perfect. • It is convenient to quantify observations and their model counterpart by probability density functions PDFs. • The simplest assumption is that they are Gaussian. • If the observation refers to a point in space and time, there is a representation error because the counterpart simulated by the model refers to a box in space and time. • The corresponding uncertainty must be accounted for either by the observational or by the model contribution to total uncertainty.

  7. Uncertainty calculation in 2 steps

  8. Carbon Cycle Data Assimilation System (CCDAS) Forward Modelling Chain CO2 Flask CO2 continuous eddy flux TM2 LMDZ Surface Fluxes BETHY + background fluxes Process Parameters

  9. CCDAS scheme

  10. Sketch of Network Designer Observations [sigma] + Flask [enter] x Continuous [enter] o Eddy Flux [enter] |Compute| Targets [sigma] European Uptake [ ] Global Uptake [ ]

  11. Assumptions and Ingredients • Assumptions: • Gaussian uncertainties on priors, observations, and from model error (or function of Gaussian, e.g. lognormal) • Model not too non linear • What else? • Ingredients • Ability to estimate uncertainties for priors, observations and due to model error • Assimilation system that can (efficiently) propagate uncertainties (helpful: adjoint, Hessian, and Jacobian codes)

  12. Further Information • Terrestrial assimilation system applications and papers: • http://CCDAS.org • The corresponding network design project: • http://IMECC.CCDAS.org • with link to paper on network design (Kaminski and Rayner, in press)

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