Issues and Results on EnKF and Particle Filtersfor Meteorological Models
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(d
) -
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-C
n(Yn-CnXW) d
Th
or
aUSSlan
nOlses,
n,Y",1Jn-l
x, Z -
exp
-
2C2
R z. e
EnKF,
as
the
number
of
elements goes
to
00,
tends
to
~
~ean-field
process
Zn different from
the
filtering process.
With
a small
number
of
elements,
th
e
EnKF
by
its
correction
method
is
bett
er
than
a
PF,
but
when
this
number
increases largely, only
the
PF
converges
to
the
optimal
filter.
All
stochastic
nonlinear
filter have two steps, one is
the
prediction
ac-
cording
to
the
dynamic
model,
the
other
is
an
update
through
a selection
process.
At
this
present
time,
no
correction process is available
to
e
nsur
e
th
e
convergence of
the
nonlinear
filter.
Th
e
exact
filter laws
are
not
an
alytically
known (
except
in
the
lin
ear
Gaussian
case
with
the
Kalm
an
estimator)
and
we have
to
use a
particle
approximation
to
learn
these
probability
laws. To
filter mean-field processes,
th
ere
are
various
particle
algorithms
(see [1]). All
are
based
on
a mean-field
Markovian
model, a genetic selection
rul
e
and
par-
ticle
approximation
for
the
filtering laws
and
for
the
mean-field laws. Now we
turn
the
discussion
onto
the
selection
step
with
limited numerical ressources
which is
the
core of
the
probl
e
ms
and
the
success
of
any
particle
or
ensemble
filter.
3
Particle
filters
regimes
Initially
for
nonlinear
filters,
the
selection
step
was
an
Import
an
ce
Sampling
(IS).
This
kind
of
selection brings some difficulties
with
filter collapses.
This
is
the
motivation
of
the
recent
pap
er
[8]
relatively
to
the
dimensionality.
But
since
the
late
90's, genetic selection have shown
th
eir efficiency
to
the
fil-
tering
problems.
In
this
selection,
there
is
an
acceptance/rejection
of
the
state
and
only
the
rejected
state
are
resampled. More precisely,
the
obser-
vational
equation
Y
n
=
Cn(Xn)
+
$n.Vn
l
ea
ds
to
a
pot
e
ntial
function G
n
( see
[3]
) which evaluates
the
ad
a
ptation
of
a
state
point
Xn
with
respect
to
Y
n
.
For a
param
eter
En
2':
0 such
that
EnGn
E [0,1]'
the
selection kernel
is defined
by
Sn,
1Jn
(x, dy) = EnGn(x)6x(dy) +
[1-
EnGn
(X)]ljIn
(7)n)(dy) where
IjIn(7)n)(dy) =
1Jn(d,(l(j')(Y)
is
the
resampling
law.
In
th
e case
of
the
high dimen-
17n
n
sional
state
space
we
suggest
to
choose for
the
param
ete
r
En
= 1/
ess
sup(
G
n
).
A
sm
a
ll
noise is
added
on
each
particle
to
insure
the
ex
ploration
of
the
state
space,
and
the
potential
G
n
is
corrected
consequently.
The
use
of
genetic se-
l
ect
ion
and
this
choice of
the
parameter
En
provide a
very
different
behavior
in
comparison
with
the
IS selection, especially
with
limited c
omputational
ressources.
Snyder
et
al.
suggest
to
examine
the
possibility
of
a
PF
collapse
with
w
max
,
th
e
maximum
of
the
weight
Wn
=
c(C
n
).
The
filter is
reputed
n
~
n
to
be
collapsed if W,7'ax is
almost
surely (a.s.) equal
to
l.
We
conduct
some
numerical ex
perim
e
nts
using
the
dynamical
model
proposed
by
Lorenz in
1996 (see [7]). We used this chaotic model because
we
can
easily increase
the
size d of
its
state
space. We observe
directly
half
of
the
state
spa
ce
and
perturb
th
e
observation
vector
with
a
standard
Gaussian
noise. A
PF
using
N = 1000
particles
with
a genetic selection filters
the
signal
during
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