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Let's account for the latest news!¶
Imagine that it is April 5, 2025: the last day to make a bet for the 2025 Breakup! Our team has a method for predicting breakup time already, and the key piece of information that you need to provide is an estimate of ice thickness. Of course, we know that there is a lot of variability in the growth and melting of ice due to the weather conditions, so we also need to evaluate the uncertainty in our estimate.
In short, your task in this notebook is to provide an estimate of the mean and standard deviation of the ice thickness given uncertain temperature as an input variable.
The Ice Thickness Model¶
To model the ice growth, you want to use the classical Stefan's Problem, which aims to determine how an ice layer grows as a function of time, given the constraint that the temperature of air ($T_{air}$) is constant, smaller than the freezing temperature $T_{fr}$ and everywhere the same.
Using this problem, we can model ice growth as:
$$ H^2_{ice}-H^2_{ice,0} = \frac{2 k_{ice}}{\rho_{ice} l}\int{(T_s-T_{fr})}dt $$where $H_{ice}$ is the thickness of the ice at a given time $t$, $H_{ice,0}$ is the thickness of the ice at time $t=0$, $k_{ice}=2.2W/(K \cdot m)$ is the thermal conductivity of ice, $\rho_{ice}=917 kg/m^3$ is the density of ice, $l = 333,4 J/g = 333,4 kJ/kg$ is the latent heat of fusion, $T_s$ is the equal to the temperature of the air and $T_{fr}=273K$ is the freezing temperature of water.
We want to estimate the ice thickness after 3 days, and will assume that the temperature remains stable during that period. Therefore, the previous equation will lead to:
$$ H_{ice} = \sqrt{\frac{2 k_{ice}}{\rho_{ice} l}\Delta T \Delta t+H^2_{ice,0}} $$where $\Delta T = |T_s-T_{fr}|$ and $\frac{2 k_{ice}}{\rho_{ice} l} \approx 1.44 \cdot 10^{-8} \ m^2/K s$
Previous work provides the following data:
- Based on the samples of ice measurements, the mean thickness is $\mu_{H0}=0.20m$ and the standard deviation of thickness is $\sigma_{H0}=0.03m$.
- Based on the forecast, the mean air temperature during the next 3 days is $\mu_T=263K$ and the standard deviation of the temperature of $\sigma_T=4K$.
- The rest of the variables are deterministic.
- The ice thickness and the predicted temperature are independent random variables.
The goal of this notebook is to carry out the uncertainty propagation and validation of the propagation model. Then you will use the results to answer a few questions in the Report.md file.
Note that you are interested in the increment of temperature $|T_s-T_{fr}|$, whose mean is $\mu_{iT}=|263-273|=10K$ and $\sigma_{iT}=4K$.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from scipy.stats import norm
from scipy.stats import probplot
plt.rcParams.update({'font.size': 14})
Internal equation check¶
Here we provide a simple function to check the values of ice thickness for different values of the input parameters. It may be useful to debug your code, or to get an understanding for the function of random variables.
def stefan(constant, H0, Ts, Tfr, time):
return np.sqrt(constant*time*abs(Ts-Tfr) + H0**2)
print('Ice thickness: ' +
f'{stefan(1.44*10**(-8), 0.15, 261, 273, 3*24*3600):.3f} m')
Part 1: Write all necessary functions¶
- Apply the propagation laws with
H_taylor()to find the mean and standard deviation of the linearized function of random variables - Find the distribution of
H_icenumerically with a simulation, then compare this to the Normal distribution defined by the mean and standard deviation of the linearized function of random variables
$\textbf{Task 1}$
Complete the two functions in the cell below, and support your work by including an image showing the analytic equations.
def H_taylor(mu_H0, mu_iT, sigma_H0, sigma_iT):
""" Taylor series approximation of mean and std of H"""
# Write your own preliminary variables here
YOUR_CODE_HERE # Probably more than one line
mu_H = YOUR_CODE_HERE
sigma_H = YOUR_CODE_HERE
return mu_H, sigma_H
def samples_plot(N, mu_H0, mu_iT, sigma_H0, sigma_iT):
"""Generate samples and plots for V
Compares the approximated Normal distribution of V to numerically
approximated distribution, found by sampling from the input
distributions.
Return: a plot and the mean and std dev of simulated values of H_ice.
"""
H0_samples = YOUR_CODE_HERE
iT_samples = YOUR_CODE_HERE
# negative values of ice thickness not physically possible
count_negative_iT = sum(iT_samples < 0)
if count_negative_iT > 0:
iT_samples[iT_samples < 0] = 0
print(f'Number of iT samples adjusted to 0: {count_negative_iT} '+
f'({count_negative_iT/N*100:.1f}% of N)')
h_samples = YOUR_CODE_HERE
mu_H = YOUR_CODE_HERE
sigma_H = YOUR_CODE_HERE
# Plot histogram
xmin = 0.0
xmax = 0.5
x = np.linspace(xmin, xmax, 100)
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize = (16, 6))
ax[0].hist(YOUR_CODE_HERE,
bins = 40, density = True,
edgecolor='black', linewidth=1.2,
label = 'Empirical PDF of ${H_{ice}}$')
Add normal pdf in same figure
ax[0].plot(x, YOUR_CODE_HERE, color = 'black',
lw = 2.5, label='Normal PDF')
ax[0].set_xlim(xmin, xmax)
ax[0].legend()
ax[0].set_xlabel('${H_{ice} [m]}$')
ax[0].set_ylabel('Density')
ax[0].set_title(f'Simulation with {N} simulated realizations'
+ '\n' + f'mean = {mu_H:.3e}'
f'm and std = {sigma_H:.3e} m')
# Add probability plot in right-side panel
probplot(YOUR_CODE_HERE, dist = norm, fit = True, plot = ax[1])
ax[1].legend(['Generated samples', 'Normal fit'])
ax[1].get_lines()[1].set_linewidth(2.5)
plt.show()
return mu_H, sigma_H, h_samples
Part 2: Uncertainty Propagation¶
$\textbf{Task 2}$
Use the functions defined in Task 1 to compute the mean and standard deviation of the linearized function of random variables, and compare the distribution defined by this result to the distribution of $H_{ice}$ found using simulation.
Now we can compute the $\mu_H$ and $\sigma_H$ as a function of:
- $\mu_{iT}=10K$ and $\sigma_{iT}=4K$
- $\mu_{H0}=0.20m$ and $\sigma_{H0}=0.03m$
mu_iT = 10
sigma_iT = 4
mu_H0 = 0.20
sigma_H0 = 0.03
N = 10000
mu_H, sigma_H = YOUR_CODE_HERE
print('Comparison of propagated and simulated distributions:\n')
mu_H_simulated, sigma_H_simulated, _ = samples_plot(N,
mu_H0, mu_iT,
sigma_H0, sigma_iT)
print('\n\nMean and standard deviation of linearized function:')
print(' \N{GREEK SMALL LETTER MU}',
'\N{LATIN SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER H}=',
f'{mu_H:.3f}', 'm')
print(' \N{GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA}',
'\N{LATIN SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER H}=',
f'{sigma_H:.3f}', 'm')
print('\n\nMean and standard deviation of simulated distribution:')
print(' \N{GREEK SMALL LETTER MU}',
'\N{LATIN SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER H} =',
f'{mu_H_simulated:.3f}', 'm')
print(' \N{GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA}',
'\N{LATIN SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER H}=',
f'{sigma_H_simulated:.3f}', 'm')
print('\n')
Recall that the right-hand plot above (and below) is by default labeled "theoretical quantiles" but in fact it is the q value (see description in WS 1.2). The y-axis contains the ordered values of the output variable, ice thickness.
Part 3: Validation of Sample Size¶
Note: this is something "new," relative to the Wednesday workshop WS 1.2.
As you may recall, the "accuracy" of a Monte Carlo simulation depends on the size of the sample (OK, we know you probably don't recall this: go read the first few paragraphs from Workshop 1.2 again, here is a link). The code cell below sets up a loop and prints the output of the uncertainty propagation for a few different sample sizes. Take a look at the results and see how they change; you will answer a question about this in the Report.
$\textbf{Task 3.1}$
The code cell below can be used for your answer to one of the questions in the Report, where you are asked to consider the "inaccurate" values that might be produced by this model.
for N in [5, 50, 500, 5000, 50000]:
mu_H_simulated, sigma_H_simulated, h_samp = samples_plot(N,
mu_H0,
mu_iT,
sigma_H0,
sigma_iT)
print(f'For N = {N} samples:')
print(f' mean = {mu_H_simulated:.3f} m')
print(f' std = {sigma_H_simulated:.3f} m\n')
$\textbf{Task 3.2}$
The code cell below can be used for your answer to one of the questions in the Report, where you are asked to consider the "inaccurate" values that might be produced by this model.
# YOUR_CODE_HERE
for i in np.linspace(0.1, 0.4, 10):
print(f'for an ice thickness of {i:5.2f} m --> ' +
f'{100*sum(h_samp <= i)/len(h_samp):8.4f}% of samples, ' +
f'{100*norm.cdf(i, mu_H, sigma_H):8.4f}% of distribution')
Once you have completed the analysis in this notebook, proceed to the questions in Report.md
