Toward the assimilation of time-averaged observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Dirren, Sébastien ^a   Hakim, Gregory J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GEOPHYSICS; KALMAN FILTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); EARTH SCIENCES;

CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; KALMAN FILTER TECHNIQUE; TIME-AVERAGED OBSERVATIONS;

METEOROLOGY; ALGORITHMS;

METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AVERAGING TIME; CHARACTERISTIC TIME; CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; DYNAMICAL FEATURES; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; IDEAL MODEL; NOVEL ALGORITHM; TIME-AVERAGED OBSERVATIONS;

EID: 19744379173     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021444     Document Type: Article

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