Fig. 6: Comparison of global 10-day forecasts with and without forecast loss after a single assimilation.

The time-averaged normalized RMSE difference of EXP_CTRL (black lines), EXP_ASSI (red lines), and EXP_ASSI without forecast loss (violet lines) for R300 (a), R500 (b), R850 (c), T300 (d), T500 (e), T850 (f), Z300 (g), Z500 (h), and Z850 (i). The shaded areas represent 95% confidence intervals of the t-test.