000014007 001__ 14007 000014007 005__ 20240712100946.0 000014007 0247_ $$2DOI$$a10.1029/2009JD013115 000014007 0247_ $$2WOS$$aWOS:000282321400002 000014007 0247_ $$2ISSN$$a0141-8637 000014007 0247_ $$2Handle$$a2128/20619 000014007 037__ $$aPreJuSER-14007 000014007 041__ $$aeng 000014007 082__ $$a550 000014007 084__ $$2WoS$$aMeteorology & Atmospheric Sciences 000014007 1001_ $$0P:(DE-HGF)0$$aSchwinger, J.$$b0 000014007 245__ $$aChemical state estimation for the middle atmosphere by four-dimensional variational data assimilation: A posteriori validation of error statistics in observation space 000014007 260__ $$aWashington, DC$$bUnion$$c2010 000014007 300__ $$aD18307 000014007 3367_ $$0PUB:(DE-HGF)16$$2PUB:(DE-HGF)$$aJournal Article 000014007 3367_ $$2DataCite$$aOutput Types/Journal article 000014007 3367_ $$00$$2EndNote$$aJournal Article 000014007 3367_ $$2BibTeX$$aARTICLE 000014007 3367_ $$2ORCID$$aJOURNAL_ARTICLE 000014007 3367_ $$2DRIVER$$aarticle 000014007 440_0 $$06393$$aJournal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres$$v115$$x0148-0227$$y19 000014007 500__ $$aWe are grateful to the European Space Agency (ESA) for providing MIPAS data. SAGE II data were obtained from NASA Langley Research Center, and HALOE data were made available by Hampton University, Virginia and NASA Langley Research Center. Meteorological analyses for initialization of GME were obtained from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). Further, we are grateful to the team at University of Cologne's computer center (RRZK) for their support and provision of computational resources. This work was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in the frame of the funding program AFO 2000 with the grant FZK 07ATF48. The authors would like to thank three anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions, which helped to improve the manuscript. 000014007 520__ $$aChemical state analyses of the atmosphere based on data assimilation may be degraded by inconsistent covariances of background and observation errors. An efficient method to calculate consistency diagnostics for background and observation errors in observation space is applied to analyses of the four-dimensional variational stratospheric chemistry data assimilation system SACADA (Synoptic Analysis of Chemical Constituents by Advanced Data Assimilation). A background error covariance model for the assimilation of Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) ozone retrievals is set up and optimized. It is shown that a significant improvement of the assimilation system performance is attained through the use of this covariance model compared to a simple covariance formulation, which assumes background errors to be a fixed fraction of the field value. The forecast skill, measured by the distance between the model forecast and MIPAS observations, is shown to improve. Further, an evaluation of analyses with independent data from the Halogen Observation Experiment (HALOE), the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II (SAGE II), and ozone sondes reveals that the standard deviation of ozone analyses with respect to these instruments is reduced throughout the middle stratosphere. Compared to the impact of background error variances on analysis quality, it is found that the precise specification of spatial background error correlations appears to be less critical if observations are spatially and temporally dense. Results indicate that ozone forecast errors of a state of the art stratospheric chemistry assimilation system are of the same order of magnitude as MIPAS observation errors. 000014007 536__ $$0G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK491$$2G:(DE-HGF)$$aAtmosphäre und Klima$$cP23$$x0 000014007 588__ $$aDataset connected to Web of Science 000014007 650_7 $$2WoSType$$aJ 000014007 7001_ $$0P:(DE-Juel1)129194$$aElbern, H.$$b1$$uFZJ 000014007 773__ $$0PERI:(DE-600)2016800-7$$a10.1029/2009JD013115$$gVol. 115, p. 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