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@ARTICLE{Kurtz:820932,
author = {Kurtz, Wolfgang and He, Guowei and Kollet, Stefan and
Maxwell, Reed M. and Vereecken, Harry and
Hendricks-Franssen, Harrie-Jan},
title = {{T}err{S}ys{MP}–{PDAF} (version 1.0): a modular
high-performance data assimilation framework for an
integrated land surface–subsurface model},
journal = {Geoscientific model development},
volume = {9},
number = {4},
issn = {1991-9603},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {Copernicus},
reportid = {FZJ-2016-06196},
pages = {1341 - 1360},
year = {2016},
abstract = {Modelling of terrestrial systems is continuously moving
towards more integrated modelling approaches, where
different terrestrial compartment models are combined in
order to realise a more sophisticated physical description
of water, energy and carbon fluxes across compartment
boundaries and to provide a more integrated view on
terrestrial processes. While such models can effectively
reduce certain parameterisation errors of single compartment
models, model predictions are still prone to uncertainties
regarding model input variables. The resulting uncertainties
of model predictions can be effectively tackled by data
assimilation techniques, which allow one to correct model
predictions with observations taking into account both the
model and measurement uncertainties. The steadily increasing
availability of computational resources makes it now
increasingly possible to perform data assimilation also for
computationally highly demanding integrated terrestrial
system models. However, as the computational burden for
integrated models as well as data assimilation techniques is
quite large, there is an increasing need to provide
computationally efficient data assimilation frameworks for
integrated models that allow one to run on and to make
efficient use of massively parallel computational resources.
In this paper we present a data assimilation framework for
the land surface–subsurface part of the Terrestrial System
Modelling Platform (TerrSysMP). TerrSysMP is connected via a
memory-based coupling approach with the pre-existing
parallel data assimilation library PDAF (Parallel Data
Assimilation Framework). This framework provides a fully
parallel modular environment for performing data
assimilation for the land surface and the subsurface
compartment. A simple synthetic case study for a land
surface–subsurface system (0.8 million unknowns) is used
to demonstrate the effects of data assimilation in the
integrated model TerrSysMP and to assess the scaling
behaviour of the data assimilation system. Results show that
data assimilation effectively corrects model states and
parameters of the integrated model towards the reference
values. Scaling tests provide evidence that the data
assimilation system for TerrSysMP can make efficient use of
parallel computational resources for > 30 k
processors. Simulations with a large problem size (20
million unknowns) for the forward model were also
efficiently handled by the data assimilation system. The
proposed data assimilation framework is useful in simulating
and estimating uncertainties in predicted states and fluxes
of the terrestrial system over large spatial scales at high
resolution utilising integrated models.},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {910},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {255 - Terrestrial Systems: From Observation to Prediction
(POF3-255) / High-resolution conditional stochastic
modelling of subsurface- land surface interactions
$(jibg30_20121101)$},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-255 / $G:(DE-Juel1)jibg30_20121101$},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000376936200003},
doi = {10.5194/gmd-9-1341-2016},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/820932},
}