Dual formulation of four-dimensional variational assimilation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 123, Issue 544, 1997, Pages 2449-2461

  Courtier, Philippe ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b CNES   (France)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Kalman filtering; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000980873     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.49712354414     Document Type: Article

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