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- Copyright (C) 2008-2014 EDF R&D
+ Copyright (C) 2008-2015 EDF R&D
This file is part of SALOME ADAO module.
form of state calibration which uses both the physical measurement and an *a
priori* parameters estimation (called the "*background*") of the state that one
seeks to identify, as well as a characterization of their errors. From this
-point of view, it uses all available information on the physical system (even if
-assumptions about errors are relatively restrictive) to find the "*optimal
+point of view, it uses all available information on the physical system, with
+restrictive yet realistic assumptions about errors, to find the "*optimal
estimation*" from the true state. We note, in terms of optimization, that the
-background realizes a "*regularization*", in a mathematical meaning, of the main
-problem of parameters identification. One can also use the terms "*inverse
-problems*" to refer to this process.
+background realizes a "*regularization*", in the mathematical meaning of
+Tikhonov [[Tikhonov77]_ [WikipediaTI]_, of the main problem of parameters
+identification. One can also use the term "*inverse problem*" to refer to this
+process.
-In practice, the two observed gaps "*calculation-background*" and
-"*calculation-measures*" are combined to build the calibration correction of
+In practice, the two observed gaps "*calculation-measures*" and
+"*calculation-background*" are combined to build the calibration correction of
parameters or initial conditions. The addition of these two gaps requires a
relative weight, which is chosen to reflect the trust we give to each piece of
information. This confidence is depicted by the covariance of the errors on the
The errors represented here are not only those from observation, but also from
the simulation. We can always consider that these errors are of zero mean.
Noting :math:`E[.]` the classical mathematical expectation, we can then define a
-matrix :math:`\mathbf{R}` of the observation error covariances by:
+matrix :math:`\mathbf{R}` of the observation error covariances by the
+expression:
.. math:: \mathbf{R} = E[\mathbf{\epsilon}^o.{\mathbf{\epsilon}^o}^T]
-The background can also be written as a function of the true value, by
-introducing the error vector :math:`\mathbf{\epsilon}^b` such that:
+The background can also be written formally as a function of the true value, by
+introducing the errors vector :math:`\mathbf{\epsilon}^b` such that:
.. math:: \mathbf{x}^b = \mathbf{x}^t + \mathbf{\epsilon}^b
-where errors are also assumed of zero mean, in the same manner as for
-observations. We define the :math:`\mathbf{B}` matrix of background error
-covariances by:
+The errors :math:`\mathbf{\epsilon}^b` are also assumed of zero mean, in the
+same manner as for observations. We define the :math:`\mathbf{B}` matrix of
+background error covariances by:
.. math:: \mathbf{B} = E[\mathbf{\epsilon}^b.{\mathbf{\epsilon}^b}^T]
The optimal estimation of the true parameters :math:`\mathbf{x}^t`, given the
background :math:`\mathbf{x}^b` and the observations :math:`\mathbf{y}^o`, is
then the "*analysis*" :math:`\mathbf{x}^a` and comes from the minimisation of an
-error function (in variational assimilation) or from the filtering correction (in
-assimilation by filtering).
+error function, explicit in variational assimilation, or from the filtering
+correction in assimilation by filtering.
In **variational assimilation**, in a static case, one classically attempts to
minimize the following function :math:`J`:
-.. math:: J(\mathbf{x})=(\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{x}^b)^T.\mathbf{B}^{-1}.(\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{x}^b)+(\mathbf{y}^o-\mathbf{H}.\mathbf{x})^T.\mathbf{R}^{-1}.(\mathbf{y}^o-\mathbf{H}.\mathbf{x})
-
-which is usually designed as the "*3D-VAR*" function (see for example
-[Talagrand97]_). Since :math:`\mathbf{B}` and :math:`\mathbf{R}` covariance
-matrices are proportional to the variances of errors, their presence in both
-terms of the function :math:`J` can effectively weight the differences by
-confidence in the background or observations errors. The parameters vector
-:math:`\mathbf{x}` realizing the minimum of this function therefore constitute
-the analysis :math:`\mathbf{x}^a`. It is at this level that we have to use the
-full panoply of function minimization methods otherwise known in optimization
-(see also section `Going further in the state estimation by optimization
-methods`_). Depending on the size of the parameters vector :math:`\mathbf{x}` to
-identify, and of the availability of gradient or Hessian of :math:`J`, it is
-appropriate to adapt the chosen optimization method (gradient, Newton,
-quasi-Newton...).
+.. math:: J(\mathbf{x})=\frac{1}{2}(\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{x}^b)^T.\mathbf{B}^{-1}.(\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{x}^b)+\frac{1}{2}(\mathbf{y}^o-\mathbf{H}.\mathbf{x})^T.\mathbf{R}^{-1}.(\mathbf{y}^o-\mathbf{H}.\mathbf{x})
+
+:math:`J` is classically designed as the "*3D-VAR*" functional in data
+assimlation (see for example [Talagrand97]_) or as the generalized Tikhonov
+regularization functional in optimization (see for example [WikipediaTI]_).
+Since :math:`\mathbf{B}` and :math:`\mathbf{R}` covariance matrices are
+proportional to the variances of errors, their presence in both terms of the
+function :math:`J` can effectively weight the gap terms by the confidence in the
+background or observations errors. The parameters vector :math:`\mathbf{x}`
+realizing the minimum of this function therefore constitute the analysis
+:math:`\mathbf{x}^a`. It is at this level that we have to use the full panoply
+of function minimization methods otherwise known in optimization (see also
+section `Going further in the state estimation by optimization methods`_).
+Depending on the size of the parameters vector :math:`\mathbf{x}` to identify,
+and of the availability of gradient or Hessian of :math:`J`, it is appropriate
+to adapt the chosen optimization method (gradient, Newton, quasi-Newton...).
In **assimilation by filtering**, in this simple case usually referred to as
"*BLUE*" (for "*Best Linear Unbiased Estimator*"), the :math:`\mathbf{x}^a`
consult introductory documents like [Talagrand97]_ or [Argaud09]_, on-line
training courses or lectures like [Bouttier99]_ and [Bocquet04]_ (along with
other materials coming from geosciences applications), or general documents like
-[Talagrand97]_, [Tarantola87]_, [Kalnay03]_, [Ide97]_ and [WikipediaDA]_.
+[Talagrand97]_, [Tarantola87]_, [Kalnay03]_, [Ide97]_, [Tikhonov77]_ and
+[WikipediaDA]_.
Note that data assimilation is not restricted to meteorology or geo-sciences,
but is widely used in other scientific domains. There are several fields in
