Four-dimensional variational data assimilation for limited-area models: Lateral boundary conditions, solution uniqueness, and numerical convergence

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1341-1353

  Lu, Chungu ^a   Browning, Gerald L ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION TECHNIQUES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ADJOINT METHOD; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD;

EID: 0034094946     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057<1341:FDVDAF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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