Office of Coast Survey / CSDL Sensitivity Analysis of Temperature and Salinity from a Suite of Numerical Ocean Models for the Chesapeake Bay Lyon Lanerolle 1,2 , Aaron J. Bever 3 and Marjorie A. M Friedrichs 4 1 NOAA/NOS/OCS/Coast Survey Development Laboratory,1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD; 2 Earth Resources Technology (ERT) Inc.,6100 Frost Place, Suite A, Laurel, MD; 3 Delta Modeling Associates, Inc., San Francisco, CA ; 4 Virginia Institute of Marine Science, The College of William & Mary, Gloucester Point, VA. U.S. IOOS Coastal Ocean Modeling Testbed 24 January 2011 10 th Symposium on the Coastal Environment 92 nd Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting
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Sensitivity Analysis of Temperature and Salinity from a Suite of Numerical Ocean Models for the
Chesapeake BayLyon Lanerolle1,2, Aaron J. Bever3 and Marjorie A. M Friedrichs4
1NOAA/NOS/OCS/Coast Survey Development Laboratory,1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD; 2Earth Resources Technology (ERT) Inc.,6100 Frost Place, Suite A, Laurel, MD; 3Delta Modeling Associates, Inc., San
Francisco, CA ; 4Virginia Institute of Marine Science, The College of William & Mary, Gloucester Point, VA.
U.S. IOOS Coastal Ocean Modeling Testbed
24 January 201110th Symposium on the Coastal Environment
92nd Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting
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Introduction and Motivation• Physical component of Numerical Ocean models generate water
elevations, currents, T and S
• Water quality models and ecological models/applications rely primarily on T and S (from the physical model)
• Expect “best” water quality predictions to result from the “best” T and S predictions (relative to observations)
• Therefore attempt to:
examine predicted T, S sensitivity to various model parameters optimize the predictions for T, S from models examine how different models compare with observations and each other employ “best” T, S predictions for water quality forecasting
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US IOOS Coastal Ocean Modeling Testbed
• Focus on Estuarine Dynamics and Modeling component
• Ideal candidate is Chesapeake Bay: Extensive data sets available (in time and space) Several numerical ocean model applications available
• Ocean models available for Testbed: CBOFS (NOAA/NOS/CSDL-CO-OPS, Lyon Lanerolle et al.) ChesROMS (U-Md/UMCES, Wen Long et al.) UMCES ROMS (U-Md/UMCES, Ming Li, Yun Li) CH3D (CBP, Ping Wang; USACE, Carl Cerco) EFDC (William & Mary/VIMS, Jian Shen and Harry Wang)
• Observed data – Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP)
• Simulation period – 2004 calendar year (2005 is similar)
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Model-Observation Comparison Metrics
• Metric used is the Normalized Target Diagram (Jolliff et al. 2009)
• m’ = m - M, o’ = o - O
• σo - SD of obs.
• Model skill is distance from origin (origin = perfect model-obs. fit)• Graphical versus numerical approach more informative
• Model(s)-Observation comparisons were made at 28 CBP stations• Stations covered lower, mid, upper Bay, Bay axis and tributaries
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Model Calibration / Parameter Sensitivity(using CBOFS)
Bottom T Bottom S
Maximum S stratification Depth of max. S strat.
Greatestsensitivity
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Global Errors
Kachemak Bay
Upper Cook Inlet
Nests
Bottom T Bottom S
• Errors were computed by considering all (28) stations at all depths and for full year
• T - CBOFS best with accurate mean and error is in overestimated RMSD• – EFDC and ChesROMS underestimate RMSD and latter underestimates mean
• S – EFDC, CH3D best but have opposite RMSD error; former underestimates mean• - again, errors show greater spread and larger magnitude than for T
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Geographical Error Dependence (T)
• Bay axis errors plotted as a function of station latitude
• Errors are for bottom T
• No strong dependence on geography (lower-, mid-, upper-bay) – small error spread
• Different models have different skill characteristics (over/under estimation of mean and RMSD)
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Geographical Error Dependence (S)
• Errors are for bottom S
• Unlike T, errors show greater spread
• 3 ROMS models similar, have largest errors and greatest in upper Bay
• CH3D, EFEC smaller errors, evenly spread and less geographical dependence
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Value-Based Error Dependence (T)
• Errors for bottom T plotted as the observed mean value itself
• Models show similar trends with UMCES ROMS and CBOFS showing slight improvements over others
• Generally, warmer T values have smaller errors – as seen by UMCES ROMS
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Value-Based Error Dependence (S)• Bottom S errors show
greater spread than for T
• Error characteristics from models are similar except UMCES ROMS – full underestimation of mean
• No consistent value-based error dependence in any of the models
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Seasonal Error Dependence (T)
• Errors for bottom T plotted as a function of month in 2004
• Spread in errors seen for all models – EFDC the most; warmer months have smaller errors
• CBOFS is most accurate and errors well balanced
• CH3D – overestimates mean, ChesROMS – underestimates mean
• EFDC – largest errors during latter half of year
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Seasonal Error Dependence (S)
• Bottom S errors show less spread than for T
• Different error characteristics in each model
• 3 ROMS models show similarity – overestimation of RMSD and underestimation of mean (except CBOFS)
• CH3D – underestimates RMSD
• EFDC – underestimates mean and under- and over- estimates RMSD
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Conclusions• Inferences for 2004, 2005 similar - so focused on 2004• Bottom S was the most sensitive variable and was used as a proxy• Model calibration/sensitivity study showed CBOFS was not significantly
sensitive to parameter variation• Global T, S errors – no drastic differences between different model
predictions (although some were relatively better)• Geographical error dependence – ROMS models had largest errors in
upper Bay; CH3D, EFDC less geographically dependent• Value-based error dependence – warmer T values have smaller errors;
no discernible error trends for S• Seasonal error dependence – T from ROMS models are similar and
CBOFS has best error balance (mean/RMSD); for S, models show different error characteristics with under/over estimation of mean/RMSD in each
• Target Diagrams proved to be an invaluable and straightforward metric for studying T and S model-observation differences