ERT - Ensemble based Reservoir Tool - is designed for running ensembles of dynamical models such as reservoir models, in order to do sensitivity analysis and data assimilation. ERT supports data assimilation using the Ensemble Smoother (ES), Ensemble Smoother with Multiple Data Assimilation (ES-MDA) and Iterative Ensemble Smoother (IES).
No reproducing steps yet, so need to investigate. The exception has been observed raised from https://github.com/equinor/ert/blob/71ec78c7a3d1a00e8b98a0e0a2d48066358eb49d/src/ert/run_models/base_run_model.py#L504