NG23C:
Non-Gaussian and Nonlinear Techniques for Data Assimilation/Fusion, Predictability, and Uncertainty Quantification and Neural Networks I

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Ute C Herzfeld, Univ Colorado Boulder, Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States, Steven J Fletcher, Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Brian C Ancell, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States and Anton Kliewer, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Conveners:  Steven J Fletcher, Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Co-conveners:  Brian C Ancell, Texas Tech Univ-Geosciences, Lubbock, TX, United States, Matthias Morzfeld, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Oakland, CA, United States and Anton Kliewer, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Steven J Fletcher, Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
Particle Filters for Very High-Dimensional Systems
Peter Jan van Leeuwen, University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom
1:55 PM
 
4D Hybrid Ensemble-Variational Data Assimilation for the NCEP GFS: Outer Loops and Variable Transforms
Daryl T Kleist1, Kayo Ide1, Rahul Mahajan2 and Catherine Thomas2, (1)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD, United States
2:10 PM
 
A Global Approach to the Identification of Model Noise
Alexandre J Chorin, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Kevin Lin, University of Arizona, Mathematics, Tucson, AZ, United States
2:25 PM
 
A Local Approach to Hybrid Data Assimilation
Kayo Ide, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Daryl T Kleist, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
2:40 PM
 
Bounds on the performance of particle filters
Chris Snyder, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Thomas Bengtsson, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, United States
2:55 PM
 
Transport map-accelerated Markov chain Monte Carlo for Bayesian parameter inference
Youssef Marzouk and Matthew Parno, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cambridge, MA, United States
3:10 PM
 
Using Self-Organizing Maps in Creation of an Ocean Forecasting System
Ivica Vilibic1, Nedjeljka Zagar2, Simone Cosoli3, Vlado Dadic1, Damir Ivankovic1, Blaz Jesenko2, Hrvoje Kalinic1, Hrvoje Mihanovic1, Jadranka Sepic1 and Martina Tudor4, (1)Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Split, Croatia, (2)University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, (3)National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics - OGS, Trieste, Italy, (4)Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service, Zagreb, Croatia
3:25 PM
 
A connectionist-geostatistical approach for classification of deformation types in ice surfaces
Lukas R Goetz-Weiss1, Ute C Herzfeld2,3, Robert Griffin Hale4, Elizabeth C Hunke5 and Jessica Bobeck1, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Univ Colorado Boulder, Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Sierra Nevada Corporation, Broomfield, CO, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, T-3 Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
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