Adaptive observations in the context of 4D-Var data assimilation

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 205-226

  Daescu, D N ^a   Navon, I M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 1942455755     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-003-0011-5     Document Type: Article

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