To what extent is your data assimilation scheme designed to find the posterior mean, the posterior mode or something else?

Recently there has been a surge in interest in coupling ensemble-based data assimilation methods with variational methods (commonly referred to as 4DVar). Here we discuss a number of important differences between ensemble-based and variational methods that ought to be considered when attempting to f...

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Main Authors: Hodyss, Daniel, Bishop, Craig H., Morzfeld, Matthias
Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Dept Math
Language:en
Published: CO-ACTION PUBLISHING 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621807
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/621807