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Auteurs principaux: Ait-El-Fquih, Boujemaa, Hoteit, Ibrahim
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Publié: 2026
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author Ait-El-Fquih, Boujemaa
Hoteit, Ibrahim
author_facet Ait-El-Fquih, Boujemaa
Hoteit, Ibrahim
contents State-of-the-art ensemble Kalman filtering (EnKF) algorithms require incorporating localization techniques to cope with the rank deficiency and the inherited spurious correlations in their error covariance matrices. Localization techniques are mostly ad-hoc, based on some distances between the state and observation variables, requiring demanding manual tuning. This work introduces a new ensemble filtering approach, which is inherently localized, avoiding the need for any auxiliary localization technique. Instead of explicitly applying localization on ensembles, the idea is to first localize the continuous analysis probability density function (pdf) before ensemble sampling. The localization of the analysis pdf is performed through an approximation by a product of independent marginal pdfs corresponding to small partitions of the state vector, using the variational Bayesian optimization. These marginals are then sampled following stochastic EnKF and deterministic ensemble transform Kalman filtering (ETKF) procedures, using ensembles larger than the partitions' size. The resulting filters involve the same forecast steps as their standard EnKF and ETKF counterparts but different analysis steps, iteratively adjusting the EnKF and ETKF updates of each partition based on the ensemble means of the other partitions. Numerical experiments are conducted with the Lorenz-96 model under different scenarios to demonstrate the potential of the proposed filters. The new filters' performances are comparable to those of the EnKF and ETKF with already tuned localization, both in terms of computational burden and estimation accuracy.
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spellingShingle A Structurally Localized Ensemble Kalman Filtering Approach
Ait-El-Fquih, Boujemaa
Hoteit, Ibrahim
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Optimization and Control
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
62M20, 62M05, 62F15, 86A22
State-of-the-art ensemble Kalman filtering (EnKF) algorithms require incorporating localization techniques to cope with the rank deficiency and the inherited spurious correlations in their error covariance matrices. Localization techniques are mostly ad-hoc, based on some distances between the state and observation variables, requiring demanding manual tuning. This work introduces a new ensemble filtering approach, which is inherently localized, avoiding the need for any auxiliary localization technique. Instead of explicitly applying localization on ensembles, the idea is to first localize the continuous analysis probability density function (pdf) before ensemble sampling. The localization of the analysis pdf is performed through an approximation by a product of independent marginal pdfs corresponding to small partitions of the state vector, using the variational Bayesian optimization. These marginals are then sampled following stochastic EnKF and deterministic ensemble transform Kalman filtering (ETKF) procedures, using ensembles larger than the partitions' size. The resulting filters involve the same forecast steps as their standard EnKF and ETKF counterparts but different analysis steps, iteratively adjusting the EnKF and ETKF updates of each partition based on the ensemble means of the other partitions. Numerical experiments are conducted with the Lorenz-96 model under different scenarios to demonstrate the potential of the proposed filters. The new filters' performances are comparable to those of the EnKF and ETKF with already tuned localization, both in terms of computational burden and estimation accuracy.
title A Structurally Localized Ensemble Kalman Filtering Approach
topic Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Optimization and Control
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
62M20, 62M05, 62F15, 86A22
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03926