Pavel Sakov

Job Position: 
Researcher
 
Department: 
Mohn-Sverdrup Center for Global Ocean Studies and Operational Oceanography
 
Group: 
Modelling and Data Assimilation Group
 
E-mail: 
 
Phone: 
55205847
 
Field of Research: 
mathematics
oceanography
 

Main Research Area

Ocean Modelling, Data Assimilation and Forecasting

My main research interests are in ensemble data assimilation methods and applications. I maintain and develop the currrent version of TOPAZ, an ocean-sea ice data assimilation system, and I am leading the reanalysis component of the Arctic MFC of MyOcean.

  • Some popular software packages for grid generation and scattered data interpolation, developed in early 2000s during my work with CMAR. 

Peer Review Publications and Books

3 total publications.

2011

  1. Sakov, P, Bertino, L . 2011 . Relation between two common localisation methods for the EnKF . 2 . 12 . Springer Netherlands . Computational Geosciences . 15

2010

  1. Sakov, P, Evensen, G, Bertino, L . 2010 . Asynchronous data assimilation with the EnKF . 1 . Blackwell Munksgaard . Tellus A . 62A
  2. Herzfeld, M, Andrewartha, J, Sakov, P . 2010 . Modelling the physical oceanography of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel and the Huon Estuary, south-eastern Tasmania . Marine and Freshwater Research . 61

Other Publications and Works

2011

  1. Simon, E, Kvamsdal, S, Bojarova, J, Wackernagel, H, Lie, I, Bertino, L, Evensen, G, Sakov, P, Counillon, F . 2011 . Forecasting non-linear systems with the Ensemble Kalman Filter and related data assimilation methods (eVITA-EnKF) . 325 . 19 . NERSC

2010

  1. Haugen, SA, Sagen, H, Sandven, S, Bertino, L, Sakov, P, Counillon, F . 2010 . Use of acoustic Travel Times for ocean model validation, and assimilation . Oslo, 8-12 June, 2010 . International Polar Year Science Conference

2009

  1. Sakov, P . 2009 . Pilot assimilation of glider data with TOPAZ . 308 . NERSC . NERSC Technical report no. 308
  2. Counillon, F, Sakov, P, Bertino, L . 2009 . Application of a hybrid EnKF-OI to ocean forecasting . Copernicus/European Geosciences Union . Ocean Science . 5
  3. Sakov, P . 2009 . Comment on Ensemble Kalman filter with the unscented transform . Elsevier . Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena . 238
  4. Oke, P, Sakov, P, Schulz, E . 2009 . A comparison of shelf observation platforms for assimilation in an eddy-resolving ocean mode . Elsevier . Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans . 48

2008

  1. Sakov, P, Oke, P . 2008 . A deterministic formulation of the ensemble Kalman filter: an alternative to ensemble square root filters . Tellus A . 60
  2. Sakov, P, Oke, P . 2008 . Objective array design: application to the tropical Indian Ocean . Journal of Atmos. Ocean. Tech. . 25
  3. Sakov, P, Oke, P . 2008 . Implications of the form of the ensemble transformations in the ensemble square root filters . Monthly Weather Review . 136
  4. Oke, P, Sakov, P . 2008 . Representation error of oceanic observations for data assimilation . Journal of Atmos. Ocean. Tech. . 25