Backwards trajectory

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Backwards trajectory

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Dear ROMS users,

I was wondering whether ROMS can track back the orginal source place using adjoint model with floats?

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Think UCLA group has offline float tracking code for ROMS that is capable of going back in time.
So, basically you feed it with ROMS precomputed history files and use similar input file for initial float positions. There is a option for going frwd or back in time..
Capet and Sasa did that long time ago, I do not know if they have "new version" because that old one was using cppdefs.h and so on...
In that way you do not need ADJOINT
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#4 Unread post by susonic »

Thanks for your notes, Ivica and Rodrigo.

So, I've got two options.

1. Modify the step_floats.F and interp_floats.F. and run the ADJOINT model with using floats.
2. Use history file to trace back.
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#5 Unread post by drivas »

That's right. If you decide to use option 2, you should save your model outputs as often as possible, so that the integration step is small enough to get not-so-large errors. But you should work with multi-trajectory ensembles anyway. For some details, you can see:

http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10. ... 0JPO4327.1

In that paper all the results are reported in a statistical basis. A river discharge is also included.
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#6 Unread post by susonic »

Thanks for your message and link, David.

I'll follow your suggestion.

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#7 Unread post by aneeshcs »

There is also one more option, which is to use adjoint passive tracers such as done in

Song, H., A. J. Miller, B. D. Cornuelle and E. Di Lorenzo, 2010: Changes in upwelling and its water sources in the California Current System driven by different wind forcing. Journal of Physical Oceanography, accepted.

and

Combes V., F. Chenillat, E. Di Lorenzo, P. Riviere, S. Bograd and M. Ohman, 2010: Cross-shore transport varaibility in the California Current: Ekman upwelling vs. eddy regime. Journal of Physical Oceanography, submitted. ( you can get the PDF from Manu's webpage, http://ocean3d.org/manu/pubs.html)

and

Chhak, K. and E. Di Lorenzo, 2007: Decadal variations in the California Current upwelling cells. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L14604, doi:10.1029/2007GL030203.

The ROMS Code for passive tracers is adjointed already. So you have to give a forcing file for your adjoint file with injecting passive tracers in the place you are interested in and the adjoint solution will give you the sensitivity of the regions which influenced your source of tracers.

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#8 Unread post by drivas »

If the Adjoint model is completely implemented, and if you can run your model whenever you want, it's most probably better to use the Adjoint model. I can tell you, however, that comparisons between the results shown in Rivas and Samelson (2011) and passive tracers advected forward in time internally in the model (done by rduran) show that both results are actually consistent. So, in summary, if you can use the Adjoint method, go ahead, but the offline method can be also a good option.
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