Articles | Volume 25, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-25-99-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-25-99-2018
Research article
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16 Feb 2018
Research article |  | 16 Feb 2018

Ensemble Kalman filter for the reconstruction of the Earth's mantle circulation

Marie Bocher, Alexandre Fournier, and Nicolas Coltice

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (02 Jan 2018) by Olivier Talagrand
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We propose a new method to reconstruct the circulation in the Earth's mantle for the last 300 Myr. This method is based on the sequential assimilation of plate layouts obtained from plate tectonic reconstructions into mantle convection models. This method allows us to take into account uncertainties in plate tectonic reconstructions, and provides an estimation of the uncertainties in the final result. We test and validate this method in a controlled environment by using synthetic experiments.