Ensemble Kalman filtering with residual nudging

by X. Luo, I. Hoteit
Year:2012

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Ensemble Kalman filtering with residual nudging
X. Luo and I. Hoteit
Tellus A, 64, 17130, 2012

Abstract

​Covariance inflation and localisation are two important techniques that are used to improve the performance of the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) by (in effect) adjusting the sample covariances of the estimates in the state space. In this work, an additional auxiliary technique, called residual nudging, is proposed to monitor and, if necessary, adjust the residual norms of state estimates in the observation space. In an EnKF with residual nudging, if the residual norm of an analysis is larger than a pre-specified value, then the analysis is replaced by a new one whose residual norm is no larger than a pre-specified value. Otherwise, the analysis is considered as a reasonable estimate and no change is made. A rule for choosing the pre-specified value is suggested. Based on this rule, the corresponding new state estimates are explicitly derived in case of linear observations. Numerical experiments in the 40-dimensional Lorenz 96 model show that introducing residual nudging to an EnKF may improve its accuracy and/or enhance its stability against filter divergence, especially in the small ensemble scenario.

DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v64i0.17130

Keywords

Data Assimilation Ensemble Kalman Filter Residual Nudging
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