The SANGOMA Tools For Data Assimilation

The EU-funded project SANGOMA - Stochastic Assimilation of the Next Generation Ocean Model Applications provides new developments in data assimilation to ensure that future operational systems can make use of state-of-the-art data-assimilation methods and related analysis tools. One task of SANGOMA is to develop a collection of common tools for data assimilation with a uniform interface so that the tools are usable from different data assimilation systems. The tool developments mainly aim at tools that support ensemble-based data assimilation applications like for the generation of perturbations, to perform transformations, to compute diagnostics, as well as further utilities. The tools are implemented in Fortran and as scripts for Matlab or Octave. The tools and their documentation are provided as free open-source programs via the project web site [http://www.data-assimilation.net]. This contribution provides an overview of the tools that are available in the latest release V1 of the SANGOMA tools as well as the plans for the next release.