Adaptive covariance inflation in the ensemble Kalman filter by Gaussian scale mixtures

Raanes, P. N., Bocquet, M. and Carrassi, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0722-5600 (2019) Adaptive covariance inflation in the ensemble Kalman filter by Gaussian scale mixtures. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 145 (718). pp. 53-75. ISSN 0035-9009 doi: 10.1002/qj.3386

Abstract/Summary

This paper studies multiplicative inflation: the complementary scaling of the state covariance in the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF). Firstly, error sources in the EnKF are catalogued and discussed in relation to inflation; nonlinearity is given particular attention as a source of sampling error. In response, the “finite‐size” refinement known as the EnKF‐N is re‐derived via a Gaussian scale mixture, again demonstrating how it yields adaptive inflation. Existing methods for adaptive inflation estimation are reviewed, and several insights are gained from a comparative analysis. One such adaptive inflation method is selected to complement the EnKF‐N to make a hybrid that is suitable for contexts where model error is present and imperfectly parametrized. Benchmarks are obtained from experiments with the two‐scale Lorenz model and its slow‐scale truncation. The proposed hybrid EnKF‐N method of adaptive inflation is found to yield systematic accuracy improvements in comparison with the existing methods, albeit to a moderate degree.

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Divisions	No Reading authors. Back catalogue items Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Publisher	Royal Meteorological Society
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