Introduction

Overview

The Sea-ice, Ocean, and Coupled Assimilation project (SOCA) is the interface between the generic components of the JEDI system and MOM6. MOM6 is developed by NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). Further documentation on the latest version of the MOM6 model is provided by GFDL

As well as all the source code needed to implement JEDI for the MOM6 grid and states, SOCA also provides all the configuration for running example applications, low resolution testing states and continuous integration.

Applications currently possible with SOCA

• Observation simulation

• 3DVar with multivariate parametric background error covariance

• EnVar and Hybrid-EnVar

• LETKF

• Biogeochemistry using BLING

• Wave analysis

• Reanalysis with the UFS and GEOS

Various types of data assimilation are supported as part of the initial release of SOCA and testing of these are routinely executed in the SOCA ctest suite. Toy example experiments with 5-degree resolution are provided as part of the tutorial.