Singular vectors and estimates of the analysis-error covariance metric

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 124, Issue 549, 1998, Pages 1695-1713

  Barkmeijer, Jan ^a   Van Gijzen, Martin ^b   Bouttier, François ^a  

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

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR; FORECASTING;

EID: 0031789008     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.54915     Document Type: Article

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