Initial testing of a massively parallel ensemble Kalman filter with the Poseidon isopycnal ocean general circulation model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 130, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2951-2965

  Keppenne, Christian L ^a   Rienecker, Michelle M ^b  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; KALMAN FILTERING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; KALMAN FILTER; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

EID: 0036965503     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<2951:ITOAMP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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