Quasi-continuous variational data assimilation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 122, Issue 530, 1996, Pages 515-534

  Järvinen, Heikki ^a   Thépaut, Jean Noël ^a   Courtier, Philippe ^a  

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

Author keywords

4D Var; Computational cost preconditioning; Variational data assimilation

Indexed keywords

BAROTROPIC GRID MODEL; COMPUTATION COST; DATA ASSIMILATION; ECMWF; INTERPOLATION; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; WEATHER PREDICTION;

EID: 0029768317     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.53010     Document Type: Article

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