Impact of formulation of cost function and constraints on three-dimensional variational data assimilation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 130, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2433-2447

  Xie, Yuanfu ^a   Lu, Chungu ^a   Browning, Gerald L ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; METEOROLOGY;

PENALIZATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

COST; DATA ASSIMILATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0036794191     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<2433:IOFOCF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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