P. Houtekamer
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198723844
- eISBN:
- 9780191791185
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198723844.003.0010
- Subject:
- Physics, Geophysics, Atmospheric and Environmental Physics
In this chapter, an experimental environment built around the Lorenz III toy model is used to demonstrate some points concerning localization. In an ensemble Kalman filter, localization is almost ...
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In this chapter, an experimental environment built around the Lorenz III toy model is used to demonstrate some points concerning localization. In an ensemble Kalman filter, localization is almost always necessary because of restrictions on the size of the ensembles. In fact, localization is the key technique that makes the ensemble approximation to the Kalman filter computationally feasible. How localization is best applied depends on aspects of the model dynamics and the observational network. A reasonable choice often leads to a substantial improvement in performance. Fortunately, as shown in this chapter, the statistics from the ensemble itself can provide guidance in the selection of a reasonable localization method.Less
In this chapter, an experimental environment built around the Lorenz III toy model is used to demonstrate some points concerning localization. In an ensemble Kalman filter, localization is almost always necessary because of restrictions on the size of the ensembles. In fact, localization is the key technique that makes the ensemble approximation to the Kalman filter computationally feasible. How localization is best applied depends on aspects of the model dynamics and the observational network. A reasonable choice often leads to a substantial improvement in performance. Fortunately, as shown in this chapter, the statistics from the ensemble itself can provide guidance in the selection of a reasonable localization method.
