Application of the quasi-inverse method to data assimilation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 864-875

  Kalnay, Eugenia ^a   Park, Seon Ki ^a,b   Pu, Zhao Xia ^c   Gao, Jidong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD;

EID: 0034093506     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<0864:AOTQIM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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