On the smoothness constraints for four-dimensional data assimilation

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 430-453

  Lin, Ching Long ^a   Chai, Tianfeng ^a   Sun, Juanzhen ^b  

^a IA United States   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DOPPLER RADAR; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD;

COST-FUNCTION; DATA ASSIMILATION TECHNIQUES; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; HARMONIC OSCILLATORS; HESSIAN MATRICES; PENALTY CONSTRAINTS; POSITIVE DEFINITE; SIMPLE++; SMOOTHNESS CONSTRAINTS;

COST FUNCTIONS;

EID: 0037144887     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2002.7136     Document Type: Article

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