Ensemble flood forecasting based on a coupled atmospheric-hydrological modeling system with data assimilation

J Tian, J Liu, D Yan, L Ding, C Li - Atmospheric Research, 2019 - Elsevier
In order to prolong the lead time of the flood forecasts, numerical weather prediction (NWP)
models are more and more widely used to provide high-resolution rainfall forecasts as the …

Systematic variational method for statistical nonlinear state and parameter estimation

J Ye, D Rey, N Kadakia, M Eldridge, UI Morone… - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
In statistical data assimilation one evaluates the conditional expected values, conditioned on
measurements, of interesting quantities on the path of a model through observation and …

Assimilation of biophysical neuronal dynamics in neuromorphic VLSI

J Wang, D Breen, A Akinin, F Broccard… - … Circuits and Systems, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Representing the biophysics of neuronal dynamics and behavior offers a principled analysis-
by-synthesis approach toward understanding mechanisms of nervous system functions. We …

State and parameter estimation using unconstrained optimization

J Schumann-Bischoff, U Parlitz - … Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2011 - APS
We present an efficient method for estimating variables and parameters of a given system of
ordinary differential equations by adapting the model output to an observed time series from …

Absolutely minimising generalised solutions to the equations of vectorial calculus of variations in

N Katzourakis - Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential …, 2017 - Springer
Consider the supremal functional 1 E_ ∞ (u, A):= ‖ L (⋅, u, D u) ‖ _ L^ ∞ (A),\quad A ⊆ Ω,
E∞(u, A):=‖ L (·, u, D u)‖ L∞(A), A⊆ Ω, applied to W^ 1, ∞ W 1,∞ maps u: Ω ⊆ R ⟶ R^ N …

Existence of 1𝐷 vectorial Absolute Minimisers in 𝐿^{∞} under minimal assumptions

H Abugirda, N Katzourakis - Proceedings of the American Mathematical …, 2017 - ams.org
We prove the existence of vectorial Absolute Minimisers in the sense of Aronsson to the
supremal functional $ E_\infty (u,\Omega')\!=\!\|\mathscr {L}(\cdot, u,\mathrm {D} u)\| _ {L^\infty …

Joint smoothing, tracking, and forecasting based on continuous-time target trajectory fitting

T Li, H Chen, S Sun, JM Corchado - arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.02196, 2017 - arxiv.org
We present a continuous time state estimation framework that unifies traditionally individual
tasks of smoothing, tracking, and forecasting (STF), for a class of targets subject to smooth …

Symplectic structure of statistical variational data assimilation

N Kadakia, D Rey, J Ye… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Data assimilation variational principles (4D‐Var) exhibit a natural symplectic structure
among the state variables x (t) and. We explore the implications of this structure in both …

Nonlinear system identification employing automatic differentiation

J Schumann-Bischoff, S Luther, U Parlitz - Communications in Nonlinear …, 2013 - Elsevier
An optimization based state and parameter estimation method is presented where the
required Jacobian matrix of the cost function is computed via automatic differentiation …

The geometric norm improves ensemble forecasting with the breeding method

D Pazó, JM López… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Error breeding is a popular and simple method to generate flow‐adapted perturbations for
use in ensemble forecasting. It has traditionally been believed that the norm type used in …