The potential of the ensemble Kalman filter for NWP - A comparison with 4D-Var

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 129, Issue 595 PART B, 2003, Pages 3183-3203

  Lorenc, Andrew C ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Error covariance modelling; Numerical weather prediction

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HYBRID METHODS;

KALMAN FILTERING;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0347709927     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.02.132     Document Type: Article

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