A case study of the consistency problem in the inverse estimation

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2017-09-19
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Inversetechniqueisawidelyusedmethodinoceanography,butithasaproblemthattheretrievedsolutionsoftenviolatemodelpriorassumptions.Totunethemodelhasconsistentsolutions,aniterationapproach,whichsuccessivelyutilizestheposteriorstatisticsfornextroundinverseestimation,isintroducedandtestedfromarealcasestudy.Itisfoundthattheconsistencymaybecomeelusiveasthedeterminantsofsolutionandnoisecovariancematricesbecomezerointheiterationprocess.However,afterseveralstepsofsuchoperation,thedifferencebetweenposteriorstatisticsandthemodelprioronescanbegraduallyreduced.