Resilience of hybrid ensemble/3DVAR analysis schemes to model error and ensemble covariance error

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1065-1080

  Etherton, Brian J ^a   Bishop, Craig H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KALMAN FILTERING; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

ASSIMILATION; CORRELATION MATRIX;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

BAROTROPIC INSTABILITY; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 2442692579     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<1065:ROHDAS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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