Can gradient information be used to improve variational objective analysis?

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2977-2994

  Spencer, Phillip L ^a,b   Gao, Jidong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GRID POINTS; SCALAR GRADIENTS; VARIABLES; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

DATA SET; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 11844296088     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2833.1     Document Type: Article

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