Implicit particle filtering for models with partial noise, and an application to geomagnetic data assimilation

Details Implicit particle filtering for models with partial noise, and an application to geomagnetic data assimilation Implicit particle filtering for models with partial noise, and an application to geomagnetic data assimilation

2011-09-16

arxiv.org/abs/1109.3664v1

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Implicit particle filtering is a sequential Monte Carlo method for data assim- ilation, designed to keep the number of particles manageable by focussing attention on regions of large probability. These regions are found by min- imizing, for each particle, a scalar function F of the state variables. Some previous implementations of the implicit filter rely on finding the Hessians of these functions. The calculation of the Hessians can be cumbersome if the state dimension is large or if the underlying physics are such that derivatives of F are difficult to calculate. This is the case in many geophysical applica- tions, in particular for models with partial noise, i.e. with a singular state covariance matrix. Examples of models with partial noise include stochastic partial differential equations driven by spatially smooth noise processes and models for which uncertain dynamic equations are supplemented by con- servation laws with zero uncertainty. We make the implicit particle filter applicable to such situations by combining gradient descent minimization with random maps and show that the filter is efficient, accurate and reliable because it operates in a subspace whose dimension is smaller than the state dimension. As an example, we assimilate data for a system of nonlinear partial differential equations that appears in models of geomagnetism.

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