Maximum-likelihood estimation of forecast and observation error covariance parameters. Part II: Applications

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1835-1849

  Dee, Dick P ^a,b   Gaspari, Greg ^a   Redder, Chris ^a   Rukhovets, Leonid ^a   Da Silva, Arlindo M ^b  

^a GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD;

EID: 0032728136     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<1835:MLEOFA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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