Figure 5
From: A new CAM6 + DART reanalysis with surface forcing from CAM6 to other CESM models
The mean values of the adaptive inflation coefficients for the zonal wind component (US) on the \(\approx 200\) hPa (top) and \(\approx 860\) hPa (bottom) model levels on Sep. 1, 2016 at 00 UTC. The inflation mean is defined for all model state variables at all assimilation times. It is a dimensionless quantity. Note the relationship between the inflation values at 200 hPa and the density of ACARS temperature observations shown in Fig. 3c. Similarly for the 860 hPa inflation values and the radiosonde US observations in Fig. 3a. The inflation standard deviation is constant (0.6) everywhere for all model state variables, so it is not shown. The figure, including continental outlines, was drawn using ncview (version 2.1.7), which is open source software licensed under the Gnu General Public License version 3.
