Sensitivity of Functionals to Observation Data in a Variational Assimilation Problem for a Sea Thermodynamics Model

Abstract

A mathematical model of sea thermodynamics, developed at the Institute of Numerical Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is considered. A problem of variational assimilation of sea surface temperature data is studied with allowance for observational error covariance matrices. Based on variational assimilation of satellite observation data, an inverse problem of restoring the heat flux on the sea surface is solved. The sensitivity of some functionals to observation data in the variational assimilation problem is investigated, and the results of numerical experiments with the model applied to Baltic Sea dynamics are presented.