Improving the Ensemble Estimate of the Kalman Gain by Bootstrap Sampling |
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Authors: | Yanfen Zhang Dean S Oliver |
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Institution: | (1) Istanbul Technical University Civil Engineering Faculty, Campus Maslak, 34469 Istanbul, Turkey |
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Abstract: | Using a small ensemble size in the ensemble Kalman filter methodology is efficient for updating numerical reservoir models
but can result in poor updates following spurious correlations between observations and model variables. The most common approach
for reducing the effect of spurious correlations on model updates is multiplication of the estimated covariance by a tapering
function that eliminates all correlations beyond a prespecified distance. Distance-dependent tapering is not always appropriate,
however. In this paper, we describe efficient methods for discriminating between the real and the spurious correlations in
the Kalman gain matrix by using the bootstrap method to assess the confidence level of each element from the Kalman gain matrix.
The new method is tested on a small linear problem, and on a water flooding reservoir history matching problem. For the water
flooding example, a small ensemble size of 30 was used to compute the Kalman gain in both the screened EnKF and standard EnKF
methods. The new method resulted in significantly smaller root mean squared errors of the estimated model parameters and greater
variability in the final updated ensemble. |
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