Combining Data-driven and Theory-guided Models in Ensemble Data Assimilation

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2022-08-23
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Virginia Tech
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There once was a dream that data-driven models would replace their theory-guided counterparts. We have awoken from this dream. We now know that data cannot replace theory. Data-driven models still have their advantages, mainly in computational efficiency but also providing us with some special sauce that is unreachable by our current theories. This dissertation aims to provide a way in which both the accuracy of theory-guided models, and the computational efficiency of data-driven models can be combined. This combination of theory-guided and data-driven allows us to combine ideas from a much broader set of disciplines, and can help pave the way for robust and fast methods.

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ensemble data assimilation, data-driven modeling, multifidelity, covariance shrinkage
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