Observation and background adjoint sensitivity in the adaptive observation-targeting problem

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 126, Issue 565, 2000, Pages 1431-1454

  Baker, Nancy L ^a   Daley, Roger ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adaptive observations; Adjoint applications; Data assimilation; Targeting

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034082449     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.56510     Document Type: Article

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