An estimation of the sensitivity of numerical error norm using adjoint model

Abstract

AbstractA posteriori estimation of the numerical error sensitivity to the local truncation error is addressed using adjoint model endowed with the information on the error field. The numerical error is estimated from the solution of the linear tangent model (LTM) or from a Richardson extrapolation. The local truncation error used in the LTM is obtained by the action of a high‐order finite‐difference stencil on the field computed by the main (low‐order accuracy) algorithm. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.