N
Nancy Nichols
Researcher at University of Reading
Publications - 185
Citations - 6057
Nancy Nichols is an academic researcher from University of Reading. The author has contributed to research in topics: Data assimilation & Covariance. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 179 publications receiving 5552 citations. Previous affiliations of Nancy Nichols include University of Leicester & North Carolina State University.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Robust pole assignment in linear state feedback
TL;DR: Numerical methods are described for determining robust, or well-conditioned, solutions to the problem of pole assignment by state feedback such that the sensitivity of the assigned poles to perturbations in the system and gain matrices is minimized.
Journal ArticleDOI
On the representation error in data assimilation
Tijana Janjic,Niels Bormann,Marc Bocquet,James A. Carton,Stephen E. Cohn,Sarah L. Dance,Svetlana N. Losa,Nancy Nichols,Roland Potthast,Roland Potthast,Joanne A. Waller,Peter Weston +11 more
TL;DR: This paper is an attempt to consolidate the terminology that has been used in the earth sciences literature and was suggested at a European Space Agency workshop held in Reading in April 2014.
Journal ArticleDOI
Approximate Gauss-Newton Methods for Nonlinear Least Squares Problems
TL;DR: This work examines “truncated” and “perturbed” Gauss-Newton methods where the inner linear least squares problem is not solved exactly, and two types of approximation used commonly in data assimilation.
Journal ArticleDOI
Numerical computation of an analytic singular value decomposition of a matrix valued function
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend the singular value decomposition to a path of matrices and develop an algorithm for computing analytic SVD's, which converges with the Euler-like method.
Journal ArticleDOI
Are patterns of growth adaptive
TL;DR: Models which define fitness in terms of per capita rate of increase of phenotypes are used to analyse patterns of individual growth and it is shown that sigmoid growth curves are an optimal strategy.