Improved variational methods in statistical data assimilation
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, ISSN: 1607-7946, Vol: 22, Issue: 2, Page: 205-213
2015
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Data assimilation transfers information from an observed system to a physically based model system with state variables x (t). The observations are typically noisy, the model has errors, and the initial state x (t0) is uncertain: the data assimilation is statistical. One can ask about expected values of functions g G(X)g on the path X Combining double low line {x(t0), ..., x(tm)} of the model state through the observation window tn Combining double low line {t0, ..., tm}. The conditional (on the measurements) probability distribution P(X) Combining double low line exp[−A0(X)] determines these expected values. Variational methods using saddle points of the "action" A0(X), known as 4DVar (Talagrand and Courtier, 1987; Evensen, 2009), are utilized for estimating g G(X)g . In a path integral formulation of statistical data assimilation, we consider variational approximations in a realization of the action where measurement errors and model errors are Gaussian. We (a) discuss an annealing method for locating the path X0 giving a consistent minimum of the action A0(X0), (b) consider the explicit role of the number of measurements at each tn in determining A0(X0), and (c) identify a parameter regime for the scale of model errors, which allows X0 to give a precise estimate of g G(X0)g with computable, small higher-order corrections.
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