The Improvement Made by a Modified TLM in 4DVAR with a Geophysical Boundary Layer Model

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages

  Zhu, Jiang ^a   Wang, Hui ^b   Masafumi, Kamachi ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL NATURAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF CHINA   (China)

^c METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adjoint models; Data assimilation; Mixed layer; Tangent linear models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012547151     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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