Using improved background-error covariances from an ensemble Kalman filter for adaptive observations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1552-1572

  Hamill, Thomas M ^a   Synder, Chris ^a  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR STATISTICS; KALMAN FILTERING;

DATA ASSIMILATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0036611627     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<1552:UIBECF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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