The use of bred vectors in the NCEP global 3D variational analysis system

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 12, Issue 3 PART II, 1997, Pages 689-695

  Pu, Zhao Xia ^a,c,d   Kalnay, Eugenia ^c   Parrish, David ^c   Wu, Wanshu ^b,c   Toth, Zoltan ^b,c  

^a NCEP   (United States)

^b GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^d WWB ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; VECTORS;

BRED VECTORS; SPECTRAL STATISTICAL INTERPOLATION (SSI);

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; NCEP; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0031225182     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1997)012<0689:tuobvi>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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