A comparison of two methods for developing the linearization of a shallow-water model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 129, Issue 589 PART C, 2003, Pages 1237-1254

  Lawless, A S ^a,b   Nichols, N K ^a   Ballard, S P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Semi Lagrangian; Tangent linear; Variational data assimilation

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LINEARIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; WATER;

SHALLOW-WATER EQUATIONS;

METEOROLOGY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; KALMAN FILTER; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0037255418     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.02.75     Document Type: Article

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