Phase-resolved ocean wave forecast with simultaneous current estimation through data assimilation

DOI10.1017/JFM.2022.765MaRDI QIDQ5039006zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Guangyao Wang, Y. Ma, Qinghe Zhang, Zhilin Li, Yulin Pan, Jinfeng Zhang

Publication date 10 October 2022

Published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02614

zbMATH Keywords

ensemble Kalman filterensemble-based data assimilationforward prediction modelhigh-order spectral methodsurface gravity wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

Abstract: In Wang & Pan (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 918, A19, 2021), the authors developed the first ensemble-based data assimilation (DA) capability for the reconstruction and forecast of ocean surface waves, namely the EnKF-HOS method coupling an ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) and the high-order spectral (HOS) method. In this work, we continue to enrich the method by allowing it to simultaneously estimate the ocean current field, which is in general not known a priori and can (slowly) vary in both space and time. To achieve this goal, we incorporate the effect of ocean current (as unknown parameters) on waves to build the HOS-C method as the forward prediction model, and obtain a simultaneous estimation of (current) parameters and (wave) states via an iterative EnKF (IEnKF) method that is necessary to handle the complexity in this DA problem. The new algorithm, named IEnKF-HOS-C method, is first tested in synthetic problems with various forms (steady/unsteady, uniform/non-uniform) of current. It is shown that the IEnKF-HOS-C method is able to not only estimate the current field accurately, but also boost the prediction accuracy of the wave field (even) relative to the state-of-the-art EnKF-HOS method. Finally, using real data from a shipborne radar, we show that the IEnKF-HOS-C method successfully recovers the current speed that matches the in situ measurement by a floating buoy.

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• Phase-resolved ocean wave forecast with ensemble-based data assimilation
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Uses Software

• EnKF
• SWAN

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