Article: Robust ensemble feature extraction for solving conditional nonlinear optimal perturbation Journal: International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) 2015 Vol.11 No.4 pp.349 - 359 Abstract: Conditional nonlinear optimal perturbation (CNOP) has been widely applied to predictability and sensitivity studies of nonlinear models. The popular methods of solving CNOP can be divided into two categories: adjoint-based and ensemble-based. Although the adjoint-based method is very accurate, it requires the development of adjoint models. The ensemble-based method is an adjoint-free technique, but either its robustness is weak or its filtering process is dependent on observation or experience to a great extent. In this paper, we propose a robust ensemble-based method to solve CNOP. This method does not need the filtering process and can extract robust features. To demonstrate the validity, the proposed method is applied to the Zebiak-Cane (ZC) model and compared with the adjoint-based method and other ensemble-based methods. To improve the computational efficiency, we design an OpenMP-based parallelising scheme for the proposed method. Experimental results show that the proposed method can outperform other ensemble-based methods in robustness and the corresponding solution of CNOP significantly approximates the one obtained with the adjoint-based method. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Robust ensemble feature extraction for solving conditional nonlinear optimal perturbation

Authors: Shicheng Wen; Shijin Yuan; Hongyu Li; Bin Mu

Addresses: School of Software Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China ' School of Software Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China ' School of Software Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China ' School of Software Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China

Abstract: Conditional nonlinear optimal perturbation (CNOP) has been widely applied to predictability and sensitivity studies of nonlinear models. The popular methods of solving CNOP can be divided into two categories: adjoint-based and ensemble-based. Although the adjoint-based method is very accurate, it requires the development of adjoint models. The ensemble-based method is an adjoint-free technique, but either its robustness is weak or its filtering process is dependent on observation or experience to a great extent. In this paper, we propose a robust ensemble-based method to solve CNOP. This method does not need the filtering process and can extract robust features. To demonstrate the validity, the proposed method is applied to the Zebiak-Cane (ZC) model and compared with the adjoint-based method and other ensemble-based methods. To improve the computational efficiency, we design an OpenMP-based parallelising scheme for the proposed method. Experimental results show that the proposed method can outperform other ensemble-based methods in robustness and the corresponding solution of CNOP significantly approximates the one obtained with the adjoint-based method.

Keywords: conditional nonlinear optimal perturbation; CNOP; base vectors; ensemble feature extraction; nonlinear modelling; Zebiak-Cane model.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2015.073494

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 2015 Vol.11 No.4, pp.349 - 359

Received: 18 Sep 2013
Accepted: 28 Oct 2013
Published online: 10 Dec 2015 *

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