A localization technique for ensemble Kalman filters

Details A localization technique for ensemble Kalman filters A localization technique for ensemble Kalman filters

2009-09-09

arxiv.org/abs/0909.1678v3

Mathematics

Numerical Analysis

16 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables. Updated figures and added extensions to the algorithm

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Ensemble Kalman filter techniques are widely used to assimilate observations into dynamical models. The phase space dimension is typically much larger than the number of ensemble members which leads to inaccurate results in the computed covariance matrices. These inaccuracies can lead, among other things, to spurious long range correlations which can be eliminated by Schur-product-based localization techniques. In this paper, we propose a new technique for implementing such localization techniques within the class of ensemble transform/square root Kalman filters. Our approach relies on a continuous embedding of the Kalman filter update for the ensemble members, i.e., we state an ordinary differential equation (ODE) whose solutions, over a unit time interval, are equivalent to the Kalman filter update. The ODE formulation forms a gradient system with the observations as a cost functional. Besides localization, the new ODE ensemble formulation should also find useful applications in the context of nonlinear observation operators and observations arriving continuously in time.

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