8. Ocean State Estimation Packages

This chapter describes packages that have been introduced for ocean state estimation purposes and in relation with automatic differentiation (see Chapter 5)

• 8.1 ECCO: model-data comparisons using gridded data sets
  • 8.1.1 Generic Cost Function
  • 8.1.2 Generic Integral Function
  • 8.1.3 Custom Cost Functions
  • 8.1.4 Key Routines
  • 8.1.5 Compile Options
  
  
• 8.2 PROFILES: model-data comparisons at observed locations
• 8.3 CTRL: Model Parameter Adjustment Capability
• 8.4 SMOOTH: Smoothing And Covariance Model
• 8.5 The line search optimisation algorithm
  • 8.5.1 General features
  • 8.5.2 The online vs. offline version
  • 8.5.3 Number of iterations vs. number of simulations

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