@misc{79868, keywords = {NWP, lecture notes}, author = {Martin Leutbecher}, title = {Adaptive observations, the Hessian metric and singular vectors}, abstract = {
Techniques for planning adaptive observations that are based on tangent-linear models and their adjoints are discussed. The emphasis is on the validation of techniques that predict the statistically expected impact of additional non-routine observations on the forecast error. The concepts are illustrated using the Lorenz-95 system, which is a low-dimensional system that has similar error growth characteristics as operational NWP systems. The objective of a consistent approach todata assimilation and adaptive observations is formulated and illustrated for an extended Kalman filter and for an OI/3DVar system. A reduced rank technique is introduced. It predicts forecast error variance in a singular vector subspace. The reduced rank predictions of forecast error variance are evaluated for both assimilation systems. Furthermore, a few examples are given of possible applications of the reduced rank estimate in the context of an operational variational assimilation scheme.
}, year = {2003}, month = {2003}, language = {eng}, }