Construction of correlation functions in two and three dimensions

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 125, Issue 554, 1999, Pages 723-757

  Gaspari, Gregory ^a   Cohn, Stephen E ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Compactly supported; Convolution; Correlation functions; Data assimilation; Space limited

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033023511     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.55416     Document Type: Article

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