The Power of Transient Piezometric Head Data in Inverse Modeling: An Application of the Localized Normal-score EnKF with Covariance Inflation in a Heterogenous Bimodal Hydraulic Conductivity Field

The localized normal-score ensemble Kalman filter (NS-EnKF) coupled with covariance inflation is used to characterize the spatial variability of a channelized bimodal hydraulic conductivity field, for which the only existing prior information about conductivity is its univariate marginal distributio...

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Autores: Xu, Teng, Zhou, Haiyan, Li, Liangping, Gómez-Hernández, J. Jaime|||0000-0002-0720-2196
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/39729
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/39729
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Normal score transform
Localization
Covariance inflation
Ensemble Kalman filter
Filter divergence
INGENIERIA HIDRAULICA
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Sumario:The localized normal-score ensemble Kalman filter (NS-EnKF) coupled with covariance inflation is used to characterize the spatial variability of a channelized bimodal hydraulic conductivity field, for which the only existing prior information about conductivity is its univariate marginal distribution. We demonstrate that we can retrieve the main patterns of the reference field by assimilating a sufficient number of piezometric observations using the NS-EnKF. The possibility of characterizing the conductivity spatial variability using only piezometric head data shows the importance of accounting for these data in inverse modeling.