Numerical methods for Data Assimilation

Stopping criterion for data assimilation

CG truncation

  • Solving (denoted ) is very expensive for large systems.

  • For , stop the CG method when i.e. the stopping criterion is satisfied.

    • (see "[Strakos, Tichy, 2005],[Arioli, 2004]")

    converges locally to and

  • Why ? :

    • CG converges monotonically in the energy norm.

    • Case of noisy problems.

Energy norm of the error for linear least-squares problems

  • Linear case (or after linearization, )

  • Maximum Likelihood estimate : minimizing

  • Backward error problem

  • Closed solution

  • Want to have below the noise level .

  • follows a squared distribution, with dof.

Numerical experiment with the energy norm

  • Linear case , ,

  • Two test-cases best discrete least-squares approximation of a function

    • as linear combination of (Well-cond. case),

    • as linear combination of (Ill-cond. case),

  • where the 's are equally spaced between in , the exact solution being .

  • is a Gaussian random vector .

  • We plot the residual for each CG iterate and compute

  • The probability that a sample of is below is very weak ( ).

Well-conditioned problem

Well-conditioned // Residual b-As
Well-conditioned // Observations b (red) and As (blue)

Conditioned problem

Conditioned problem // Residual b-As
Conditioned problem // Observations b (red) and As (blue)

Conclusion

  • Stopping criterion based on the energy norm of the error.

  • Natural when CG is used.

  • Interesting properties for noisy problems.

  • More test needed ...

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