“…Lions in 1988 [11]. In [1] the MPS is applied for solving a three dimensional variational Data Assimilation (DA) problem, which is a large scale inverse and ill posed problem used to handle a huge amount of data and requiring new mathematical and algorithmic approaches for its solution [2,3,4,5,6,9]. In this note, we review the two DD approches, namely the one introduced in [5] and the MPS method applied to 2 The DA inverse problem Let x ∈ Ω ⊂ R N , t ∈ [0, T ] and let u(t, x) be the state evolution of a predictive system from time t − ∆t to time t, governed by the mathematical…”