Data assimilation: making sense of Earth Observation

WA Lahoz, P Schneider - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Climate change, air quality, and environmental degradation are important societal
challenges for the Twenty-first Century. These challenges require an intelligent response …

Chemical Data Assimilation—An Overview

A Sandu, T Chai - Atmosphere, 2011 - mdpi.com
Chemical data assimilation is the process by which models use measurements to produce
an optimal representation of the chemical composition of the atmosphere. Leveraging …

Predicting air quality: Improvements through advanced methods to integrate models and measurements

GR Carmichael, A Sandu, T Chai, DN Daescu… - Journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
Air quality prediction plays an important role in the management of our environment.
Computational power and efficiencies have advanced to the point where chemical transport …

On-line economic optimization of energy systems using weather forecast information

VM Zavala, EM Constantinescu, T Krause… - Journal of Process …, 2009 - Elsevier
We establish an on-line optimization framework to exploit weather forecast information in the
operation of energy systems. We argue that anticipating the weather conditions can lead to …

Three‐dimensional variational data assimilation of ozone and fine particulate matter observations: some results using the Weather Research and Forecasting …

M Pagowski, GA Grell, SA McKeen… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
In operational air‐quality forecasting, initial concentrations of chemical species are often
obtained using previous‐day forecasts with limited or no account for the observations. In this …

A comparison study of data assimilation algorithms for ozone forecasts

L Wu, V Mallet, M Bocquet… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the performances of different data assimilation
schemes with the aim of designing suitable assimilation algorithms for short‐range ozone …

Ensemble‐based chemical data assimilation. I: General approach

EM Constantinescu, A Sandu, T Chai… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Data assimilation is the process of integrating observational data and model predictions to
obtain an optimal representation of the state of the atmosphere. As more chemical …

Experiments with the assimilation of fine aerosols using an ensemble Kalman filter

M Pagowski, GA Grell - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In a series of experiments we issue forecasts of fine aerosol concentration over the
coterminous USA and southern Canada using the Weather Research and Forecasting …

An ensemble Kalman filter implementation based on modified Cholesky decomposition for inverse covariance matrix estimation

ED Nino-Ruiz, A Sandu, X Deng - SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2018 - SIAM
This paper develops an efficient implementation of the ensemble Kalman filter based on a
modified Cholesky decomposition for inverse covariance matrix estimation. This …

Physics-informed covariance kernel for model-form uncertainty quantification with application to turbulent flows

JL Wu, C Michelén-Ströfer, H **ao - Computers & Fluids, 2019 - Elsevier
In uncertainty quantification of computational models (eg, turbulence modeling) with
Bayesian inferences, Gaussian processes are commonly used as the prior for model …