Hierarchical Bayesian approach to boundary value problems with stochastic boundary conditions

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1051-1062

  Wikle, Christopher K ^a   Berliner, L Mark ^b   Milliff, Ralph F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NorthWest Research Associates Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND;

FLUID EQUATIONS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BOUNDARY LAYER; SURFACE WIND; WIND FIELD;

LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 0038508757     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<1051:HBATBV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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