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Errors, Uncertainties in Data Assimilation

Errors, Uncertainties in Data Assimilation. François-Xavier LE DIMET Université Joseph Fourier+INRIA Projet IDOPT, Grenoble, France. Acknowlegment. Pierre Ngnepieba ( FSU) Youssuf Hussaini ( FSU) Arthur Vidard ( ECMWF) Victor Shutyaev ( Russ. Acad. Sci.) Junqing Yang ( LMC , IDOPT).

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Errors, Uncertainties in Data Assimilation

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  1. Errors, Uncertainties in Data Assimilation François-Xavier LE DIMET Université Joseph Fourier+INRIA Projet IDOPT, Grenoble, France

  2. Acknowlegment • Pierre Ngnepieba ( FSU) • Youssuf Hussaini ( FSU) • Arthur Vidard ( ECMWF) • Victor Shutyaev ( Russ. Acad. Sci.) • Junqing Yang ( LMC , IDOPT)

  3. Prediction: What information is necessary ? • Model • law of conservation mass, energy • Laws of behaviour • Parametrization of physical processes • Observations in situ and/or remote • Statistics • Images

  4. Forecast.. • Produced by the integration of the model from an initial condition • Problem : how to link together heterogeneous sources of information • Heterogeneity in : • Nature • Quality • Density

  5. Basic Problem • U and V control variables, V being and error on the model • J cost function • U* and V* minimizes J

  6. Optimality System • P is the adjoint variable. • Gradients are couputed by solving the adjoint model then an optimization method is performed.

  7. Remark on statistical information • Statistical information is included in the assimilation • In the norm of the discrepancy between the solution of the model ( approximation of the inverse of the covariance matrix) • In the background term ( error covariance matrix)

  8. Remarks: • This method is used since May 2000 for operational prediction at ECMWF and MétéoFrance, Japanese Meteorological Agency ( 2005) with huge models ( 10 millions of variable. • The Optimality System countains all the available information • The O.S. should be considered as a « Generalized Model » • Only the O.S. makes sense.

  9. Errors • On the model • Physical approximation (e.g. parametrization of subgrid processes) • Numerical discretization • Numerical algorithms ( stopping criterions for iterative methods • On the observations • Physical measurement • Sampling • Some « pseudo-observations », from remote sensing, are obtained by solving an inverse problem.

  10. Sensitivity of the initial condition with respect to errors on the models and on the observations. • The prediction is highly dependant on the initial condition. • Models have errors • Observations have errors. • What is the sensitivity of the initial condition to these errors ?

  11. Optimality System : including errors on the model and on the observation

  12. Second order adjoint

  13. Models and Data • Is it necessary to improve a model if data are not changed ? • For a given model what is the « best » set of data? • What is the adequation between models and data?

  14. A simple numerical experiment. • Burger’s equation with homegeneous B.C.’s • Exact solution is known • Observations are without error • Numerical solution with different discretization • The assimilation is performed between T=0 and T=1 • Then the flow is predicted at t=2.

  15. Partial Conclusion • The error in the model is introduced through the discretization • The observations remain the same whatever be the discretization • It shows that the forecast can be downgraded if the model is upgraded. • Only the quality of the O.S. makes sense.

  16. Remark 1 • How to improve the link between data and models? • C is the operator mapping the space of the state variable into the space of observations • We considered the liear case.

  17. Remark 2 : ensemble prediction • To estimate the impact of uncertainies on the prediction several prediction are performed with perturbed initial conditions • But the initial condition is an artefact : there is no natural error on it . The error comes from the data throughthe data assimilation process • If the error on the data are gaussian : what about the initial condition?

  18. Because D.A. is a non linear process then the initial condition is no longer gaussian

  19. Control of the error

  20. Choice of the base

  21. Remark . • The model has several sources of errors • Discretization errors may depends on the second derivative : we can identify this error in a base of the first eigenvalues of the Laplacian • The systematic error may depends be estimated using the eigenvalues of the correlation matrix

  22. Numerical experiment • With Burger’s equation • Laplacian and covariance matrix have considered separately then jointly • The number of vectors considered in the correctin term varies

  23. An application in oceanographyin A. Vidard’s Ph.D. • Shallow water on a square domain with a flat bottom. • An bias term is atted into the equation and controlled

  24. RMS ot the sea surface height with or without control of the bias

  25. An application in hydrology(Yang Junqing ) • Retrieve the evolution of a river • With transport+sedimentation

  26. Physical phenomena • fluid and solid transport • different time scales

  27. N 2D sedimentation modeling 1. Shallow-water equations 2. Equation of constituent concentration 3. Equation of the riverbed evolution

  28. Semi-empirical formulas • Bed load function : • Suspended sediment transport rate : are empirical constants

  29. An example of simulation Initial river bed • Domain : • Space step : 2 km in two directions • Time step : 120 seconds Simulated evolution of river bed (50 years)

  30. Model error estimation controlled system • model • cost function • optimality conditions • adjoint system(to calculate the gradient)

  31. Reduction of the size of the controlled problem • Change the space bases Suppose is a base of the phase space and is time-dependent base function on [0, T], so that then the controlled variables are changed to with controlled space size

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