The Met. Office global three-dimensional variational data assimilation scheme

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 126, Issue 570, 2000, Pages 2991-3012

  Lorenc, A C ^a   Ballard, S P ^a   Bell, R S ^a   Ingleby, N B ^a   Andrews, P L F ^a   Barker, D M ^a   Bray, J R ^a   Clayton, A M ^a   Dalby, T ^a   Li, D ^a   Payne, T J ^a   Saunders, F W ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Numerical weather prediction; Variational data assimilation

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 17744394502     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.57001     Document Type: Article

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