Wind Field Reconstruction with Adaptive Random Fourier Features

02/04/2021
by   Jonas Kiessling, et al.
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We investigate the use of spatial interpolation methods for reconstructing the horizontal near-surface wind field given a sparse set of measurements. In particular, random Fourier features is compared to a set of benchmark methods including Kriging and Inverse distance weighting. Random Fourier features is a linear model β( x) = ∑_k=1^K β_k e^iω_k x approximating the velocity field, with frequencies ω_k randomly sampled and amplitudes β_k trained to minimize a loss function. We include a physically motivated divergence penalty term |∇·β( x)|^2, as well as a penalty on the Sobolev norm. We derive a bound on the generalization error and derive a sampling density that minimizes the bound. Following (arXiv:2007.10683 [math.NA]), we devise an adaptive Metropolis-Hastings algorithm for sampling the frequencies of the optimal distribution. In our experiments, our random Fourier features model outperforms the benchmark models.

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