Development of the Ensemble Navy Aerosol Analysis Prediction System (ENAAPS)  and its application of the Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART) in  support of aerosol forecasting

Rubin, Juli I.; Reid, Jeffrey S.; Hansen, James A.; Anderson, Jeffrey L.; Collins, Nancy; Hoar, Timothy J.; Hogan, Timothy; Lynch, Peng; McLay, Justin; Reynolds, Carolyn A.; Sessions, Walter R.; Westphal, Douglas L.; Zhang, Jianglong

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3927-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3927-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3927-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 6

Research article

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23 Mar 2016

Research article |

| 23 Mar 2016

Development of the Ensemble Navy Aerosol Analysis Prediction System (ENAAPS) and its application of the Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART) in support of aerosol forecasting

Juli I. Rubin, Jeffrey S. Reid, James A. Hansen, Jeffrey L. Anderson, Nancy Collins, Timothy J. Hoar, Timothy Hogan, Peng Lynch, Justin McLay, Carolyn A. Reynolds, Walter R. Sessions, Douglas L. Westphal, and Jianglong Zhang

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C9415: 'review report', Anonymous Referee #1, 17 Nov 2015
- AC C11104: 'Final Response to Anonymous Reviewer', Juli Rubin, 04 Jan 2016
RC C9480: 'Referee’s comments on “Development of the Ensemble Navy Aerosol Analysis Prediction System (ENAAPS) and its application of the Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART) in support of aerosol forecasting” by J. I. Rubin et al.', Thomas Sekiyama, 19 Nov 2015
- AC C11105: 'Final Response to T. Sekiyama', Juli Rubin, 04 Jan 2016
RC C9760: 'Review of “Development of the Ensemble Navy Aerosol Analysis Prediction System (ENAAPS) and its application of the Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART) in Support of Aerosol Forecasting” by Juli Rubin et al', Angela Benedetti, 25 Nov 2015
AC C11106: 'Final Response to A. Benedetti', Juli Rubin, 04 Jan 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Juli Rubin on behalf of the Authors (08 Jan 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (03 Mar 2016) by Michael Schulz

AR by Juli Rubin on behalf of the Authors (03 Mar 2016)

Short summary

This work tests the use of an ensemble prediction system for aerosol forecasting, including an ensemble adjustment Kalman filter for MODIS AOT assimilation. Key findings include (1) meteorology and source-perturbed ensembles are needed to capture long-range transport and near-source aerosol events, (2) adaptive covariance inflation is recommended for assimilating spatially heterogeneous observations and (3) the ensemble system captures sharp gradients relative to a deterministic/variational system.