Estimation of the Parameters in a Dynamical Marine Ecosystem Model Based on the Adjoint Assimilation
By utilizing spatial biological parameterizations, the adjoint variational method was applied to a 3D marine ecosystem model (NPZD-type) and its adjoint model which were built on global scale based on climatological environment and data. When the spatially varying Vm (maximum uptake rate of nutrient by phytoplankton) was estimated alone, we discussed how would the distribution schemes of spatial parameterization and influence radius affected the results. The reduced cost function (RCF), the mean absolute error (MAE) of phytoplankton in the surface layer, and the relative error (RE) of Vm between given and simulated values decreased obviously. The influence of time step was studied then and we found that the assimilation recovery would not be more successful with a smaller time step of 3 hours compared with 6 hours.