Very large inverse problems in atmosphere and ocean modelling

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 47, Issue 8-9, 2005, Pages 759-771

  Johnson, C ^a   Nichols, N K ^b   Hoskins, B J ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Large scale inverse problems; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Nonlinear least squares; Singular vectors; Tikhonov regularization; Variational data assimilation; Weather, ocean and climate models

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OCEANOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ATMOSPHERE MODELING; NUMERICAL FORECASTING; OCEAN MODELING; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION (SVD);

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; WEATHER MODELING;

EID: 15744370499     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.869     Document Type: Article

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