LEMDA: A Lagrangian-Eulerian Multiscale Data Assimilation Framework

Quanling Deng, Nan Chen, Samuel N. Stechmann, Jiuhua Hu

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Audit review

The paper states, with citations to classical filtering theory, that conditioning the nonlinear DA system on the observed path Z turns the U-dynamics linear and yields a conditionally Gaussian posterior with closed Kalman–Bucy-type evolution for the mean and covariance (its equations (2.11a–b)) . It also derives, under a near-uniform-tracer mean-field closure, a scalar Riccati equation and its steady-state solution for each flow mode (its (4.3)–(4.4)) , with supporting details in the SI (Sec. 8.1) . The candidate solution reproduces the same results via the standard innovations method and an explicit mean-field reduction. Assumptions like invertibility of ΣZΣZ*, independence of driving noises, and a Gaussian prior are made explicit by the model and are consistent with the paper’s usage. Therefore, both are correct and essentially use the same proof structure, albeit the paper sketches and references the derivation while the model spells it out.

Referee report (LaTeX)

\textbf{Recommendation:} minor revisions

\textbf{Journal Tier:} strong field

\textbf{Justification:}

This work presents a Lagrangian–Eulerian multiscale DA framework with closed-form posterior dynamics for conditionally Gaussian systems and an effective reduced-order closure for Lagrangian DA. The analytic filter (paper (2.11)) and the mean-field reduced Riccati with steady state (paper (4.3)–(4.4)) are correct and compelling. The contribution is well-motivated by computational efficiency and demonstrated numerically. Minor revisions are suggested to make a few assumptions explicit (Gaussian prior, independence of noises, invertibility of ΣZΣZ*) and to slightly expand the exposition of the innovations representation and the mean-field closure regime.