Re: svd_lapack vs eofunc/eofunc_ts

Hi Kerrie

For what it is worth, the second group of eigenvalues is equal to the first group
divided by 3, which is the largest dimension of your matrix.
It may depend a bit on how the SVD problem is posed, I suppose.

Gus Correa

On Nov 29, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Kerrie Geil wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Can anyone tell me why the singular value decomposition (svd_lapack) below yields different eigenvalues than the eigenanalysis (eofunc, eofunc_ts), while both output the exact same EOFs and PCs? Can't see what I'm doing wrong. Code and output are below.
>
> Thanks!
> Kerrie
>
>
> ;######################################################################################
> ;### data array A=(/ntime,nspace/) ###
> A=(/ (/-2.,1./),(/7.,-8./),(/-3.,0./),(/5.,-9./) /)
> A!0="time"
> A!1="space"
> ntime=4 ;### number of rows, time dimension 0 ###
> nspace=2 ;### number of columns, space dimension 1 ###
>
> Aprime = dim_rmvmean_n(A,0)
> ;### singular value decomposition of Aprime ###
> ;### Aprime=(u)(s)(vtranspose)-----> (4x2)=(4x2)(2x2)(2x2) ###
> u = new ( (/ntime,nspace/) , float ) ;### columns of u are PC eigenvectors ###
> vtranspose = new ( (/nspace,nspace/) , float ) ;### rows of vtranspose are EOF eigenvectors ###
> s = svd_lapack (Aprime, "S" , "S", 0, vtranspose, u) ;### s^2=eigenvalues
> ;### s is returned with only the non-zero (diagonal) values
>
> print("for SVD")
> print("U:")
> write_matrix (u, "2f10.4", False)
> print("V:")
> write_matrix (vtranspose, "2f10.4", False)
> print("lambda:")
> print(s^2)
>
>
> At=transpose(A) ;### make time the rightmost dimension ###
> eof=eofunc(At,2,False) ;### rows of eof are EOFs ###
> eoftranspose=transpose(eof)
> pc=eofunc_ts_Wrap(At,eof,False) ;### rows of pc are PCs ###
> pctranspose=transpose(pc) ;### for similarity to SVD matrices, now columns of pc are PCs ###
> pc_colsum=dim_sum_n(pctranspose^2,0) ;### square each component and sum the columns ###
> pctranspose(:,0)=pctranspose(:,0)/sqrt(pc_colsum(0)) ;### normalize PC1
> pctranspose(:,1)=pctranspose(:,1)/sqrt(pc_colsum(1)) ;### normalize PC2
>
> print("for eofunc")
> print("U:")
> write_matrix (pctranspose, "2f10.4", False)
> print("V:")
> write_matrix (eof, "2f10.4", False)
> print("lambda:")
> print(eof@eval)
> ;######################################################################################
>
>
> OUPUT IS:
>
> (0) for SVD
> (0) U:
>
> 0.5010 0.4050
> -0.5261 0.5745
> 0.4983 -0.3748
> -0.4732 -0.6046
>
> (0) V:
>
> -0.6898 0.7240
> 0.7240 0.6898
>
> (0) lambda:
> (0) 153.4626
> (1) 3.287447
> (0)
> (0)
> (0) for eofunc
> (0) U:
>
> 0.5010 0.4050
> -0.5261 0.5745
> 0.4983 -0.3748
> -0.4732 -0.6046
>
> (0) V:
>
> -0.6898 0.7240
> 0.7240 0.6898
>
> (0) lambda:
> (0) 51.15419
> (1) 1.095816
>
>
>
>
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