Parameter Estimation: Concept and Example (Amal El Moghraby, UNC-Chapel Hill)

Abstract: If two passive tracers are launched sufficiently close in an Eulerian field, the fate of these tracers might be very dissimilar: each ending up in a different dynamical region. The goal of this study is to show that such tracers will carry different Lagrangian information but when assimilated will recover similar Eulerian fields. The mathematical tool we will use for this study is parameter estimation and the system we will examine is the Rossby wave.

This work is jointly done with Prof. Chris K.R.T. Jones


This is an abstract of a poster to be presented at the 2004 SEAMS Workshop in Charleston, SC. For more information, visit the workshop's homepage at math.cofc.edu/SEAMS.