Ensemble Perturbation Smoother

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Contents 1 Ensemble Perturbation Smoother 2 Requirements 3 Installation 4 Testing

Ensemble Perturbation Smoother

The Ensemble Perturbation Smoother is a software package performing an ensemble analysis to determine forcing fields of a numerical model by assimilation of observations. Details of the procedure are explained in:

A. Barth, A. Alvera-Azcárate, K.-W. Gurgel, J. Staneva, A. Port, J.-M. Beckers, and E. V. Stanev. Ensemble perturbation smoother for optimizing tidal boundary conditions by assimilation of High-Frequency radar surface currents - application to the German Bight. Ocean Sci., 6, 161-178, 2010

http://www.ocean-sci.net/6/161/2010/os-6-161-2010.html

Please cite this manuscript if you use this package.

Requirements

This package requires either GNU Octave or MATLAB.

Installation

• Download the package from http://modb.oce.ulg.ac.be/mediawiki/upload/Alex/EnsPertSmoother-1.0.tar.gz
• Extract the package at a location that suits you
• Add the path to your MATLAB/Octave search path in the menu File > Set Path (in MATLAB) or by adding:

addpath('/path/to/EnsPertSmoother-x.y');

in your start-up file called startup.m in MATLAB or .octaverc in GNU Octave.

Testing

The script toy_example will show you an example:

toy_example