Data assimilation using an ensemble Kalman filter technique

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 796-811

  Houtekamer, P L ^a   Mitchell, Herschel L ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR STATISTICS; ESTIMATION; INTERPOLATION; KALMAN FILTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER TECHNIQUE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; STATISTICAL INTERPOLATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0032024819     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<0796:DAUAEK>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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