FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI A generalized framework to transport geophysical fields: a differential geometry perspective BT AF ZHEN, Yicun Resseguier, Valentin CHAPRON, Bertrand AS 1:1,4;2:2,3;3:4; FF 1:PDG-ODE-LOPS-SIAM;2:;3:PDG-ODE-LOPS-SIAM; C1 Department of Oceanography, Hohai University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China LAB, SCALIAN DS, Rennes, France INRAE, OPAALE, Rennes, France Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, Ifremer, Plouzané, France C2 UNIV HOHAI, CHINA SCALIAN, FRANCE INRAE, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-ODE-LOPS-SIAM UM LOPS TC 0 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00866/97814/106899.pdf LA English DT Article AB To estimate displacements of physical fields, a general framework is proposed. Considering that for each state variable, a tensor field can be associated, ways these displacements act on different state variables will differ according to the tensor field definitions. This perspective provides a differential-geometry-based reformulation of the generalized optical flow (OF) algorithm. Using the proposed framework, optimisation procedures can explicitly ensure the conservation of certain physical quantities (total mass, total vorticity, total kinetic energy, etc.). Existence and uniqueness of the solutions to the local optimisation problem are demonstrated, leading to a new nudging strategy using all-available observations to infer displacements of both observed and unobserved state variables. Using the proposed nudging method before EnKF, numerical results show that ensemble data assimilation better preserves the intrinsic structure of underline physical processes if the ensemble members are aligned with the observations. PY 2023 PD DEC SO ArXiv PU Cornell University DI 10.48550/arXiv.2312.01341 ID 97814 ER EF