Performance of 4D-Var with different strategies for the use of adjoint physics with the FSU global spectral model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 668-688

  Li, Zhijin ^a   Navon, I M ^a   Zhu, Yanqiu ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT METHOD; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0034018269     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<0668:POVWDS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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