Ocean data assimilation with background error covariance derived from OGCM outputs

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 181-192

  Fu, Weiwei ^a   Zhou, Guangqing ^a   Wang, Huijun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Background error; Covariance; Data assimilation; Model output

Indexed keywords

EID: 15944362574     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02915704     Document Type: Article

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