Podladchikova T. V., Y. Y. Shprits, A. C. Kellerman, D. Kondrashov, (2014), Noise statistics identification for Kalman filtering of the electron radiation belt observations: 2. Filtration and smoothing, J. Geophys. Res. [Space Physics], 119, 5725-5743, doi:10.1002/2014JA019898
Abstract
AbstractIn this study we present the further improvement of data assimilation using the 1-D radial diffusion model for relativistic electron phase space density (PSD) and observations of CRRES satellite. The main purpose of our study is estimation of the radiation belt dynamics for the prediction and mitigation of space weather effects in the hazardous space environment. We develop further noise statistics identification technique presented in the companion paper to estimate the observation error statistics that are crucially important for optimal performance of data assimilation. Assimilation of satellite observations into first-principles physics model of radiation belts, when both model and observation error statistics are poorly known, may cause large errors in the PSD estimation and lead to failure of a data assimilation algorithm. We identify the coefficients of proportionality characterizing the dependence of observation errors on satellite observations. The effectiveness of the proposed identification technique is illustrated by applying the Kalman filter with optimal identified and nonoptimal observation errors statistics to the sparse CRRES observations over a period of 441 days, from 28 July 1990 to 11 October 1991. Further improvement and the accuracy increase of PSD reconstruction is demonstrated by the implementation of the backward smoothing procedure applied to the forward Kalman filter estimates.Authors (sorted by name)
Kellerman Kondrashov Podladchikova ShpritsJournal / Conference
Journal Of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)Acknowledgments
This work was supported by Skoltech internal funds, the UCLA Lab Fees Research program 443869‐Y3‐69763, NASA NNX13AE34G and NSF AGS‐1203747 grants. We would like to thank D. Boscher, S. Bourdarie, T.P. O'Brien, and T. Guild for the developing the IRBEM library used in this study and the reviewers for helpful comments. The CRRES data are available for download at ftp://virbo.org/users/johnston/crres.Grants
443869‐Y3‐69763 AGS‐1203747 NNX13AE34GBibtex
@article{doi:10.1002/2014JA019898,
author = {Podladchikova, T. V. and Shprits, Y. Y. and Kellerman, A. C. and Kondrashov, D.},
title = {Noise statistics identification for Kalman filtering of the electron radiation belt observations: 2. Filtration and smoothing},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics},
year = {2014},
volume = {119},
number = {7},
pages = {5725-5743},
keywords = {radiation belts, data assimilation, observation error identification, Kalman filter, optimal smoothing, space weather},
doi = {10.1002/2014JA019898},
url = {https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2014JA019898},
eprint = {https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2014JA019898},
abstract = {AbstractIn this study we present the further improvement of data assimilation using the 1-D radial diffusion model for relativistic electron phase space density (PSD) and observations of CRRES satellite. The main purpose of our study is estimation of the radiation belt dynamics for the prediction and mitigation of space weather effects in the hazardous space environment. We develop further noise statistics identification technique presented in the companion paper to estimate the observation error statistics that are crucially important for optimal performance of data assimilation. Assimilation of satellite observations into first-principles physics model of radiation belts, when both model and observation error statistics are poorly known, may cause large errors in the PSD estimation and lead to failure of a data assimilation algorithm. We identify the coefficients of proportionality characterizing the dependence of observation errors on satellite observations. The effectiveness of the proposed identification technique is illustrated by applying the Kalman filter with optimal identified and nonoptimal observation errors statistics to the sparse CRRES observations over a period of 441 days, from 28 July 1990 to 11 October 1991. Further improvement and the accuracy increase of PSD reconstruction is demonstrated by the implementation of the backward smoothing procedure applied to the forward Kalman filter estimates.}
}