Generalized adjoint for physical processes with parameterized discontinuities. Part VI: Minimization problems in multidimensional space

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 994-1002

  Qin, Xu ^a   Gao, Jidong ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; VECTORS;

COARSE GRAINED ADJOINT; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SPACE;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

ADJOINT METHOD; DISCONTINUITY; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 0344069504     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<0994:gafppw>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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