Articles | Volume 23, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-23-59-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-23-59-2016
Research article
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11 Mar 2016
Research article |  | 11 Mar 2016

Hybrid Levenberg–Marquardt and weak-constraint ensemble Kalman smoother method

J. Mandel, E. Bergou, S. Gürol, S. Gratton, and I. Kasanický

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A stochastic method, the ensemble Kalman smoother (EnKS), is proposed as a linear solver in four-dimensional variational data assimilation (4DVAR). The method approaches 4DVAR for large ensembles. Regularization provides global convergence, and it is implemented as an additional artificial observation. Since the EnKS is uncoupled from the insides of the 4DVAR, any version of EnKS can be used.