A local ensemble kalman filter for the NCEP GFS model

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 67-77

  Szunyogh, Istvan ^a   Kostelich, Eric J ^a,b   Gyarmati, Gyorgyi ^a   Hunt, Brian R ^a   Ott, Edward ^a   Zimin, Aleksey V ^a   Kalnay, Eugenia ^a   Patil, Dhanurjay ^a   Yorke, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCES; DATA ASSIMILATION SCHEME; LOCAL ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER [LKEF]; VARIANCE INFLATION; VERTICAL LOCALIZATION;

COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR CORRECTION; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

KALMAN FILTERING;

EID: 2442607396     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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