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A pragmatic strategy for implementing spatially correlated observation errors in an operational system: An application to Doppler radial winds

Recent research has shown that high‐resolution observations, such as Doppler radar radial winds, exhibit spatial correlations. High‐resolution observations are routinely assimilated into convection‐permitting numerical weather prediction models assuming their errors are uncorrelated. To avoid violating this assumption, observation density is severely reduced. To improve the quantity of observations used and the impact that they have on the forecast requires the introduction of full, correlated, error statistics. Some operational centres have introduced satellite inter‐channel observation‐error correlations and obtained improved analysis accuracy and forecast skill scores. Here we present a strategy for implementing spatially correlated observation errors in an operational system. We then provide the first demonstration of the practical feasibility of incorporating spatially correlated Doppler radial wind error statistics in the Met Office numerical weather prediction system.