Ensemble-derived stationary and flow-dependent background-error covariances: Evaluation in a quasi-operational NWP setting

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 607, 2005, Pages 1013-1043

  Buehner, Mark ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D Var; Correlation localization; Ensemble Kalman filter

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTERING; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; VECTORS;

CORRELATION LOCALIZATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION (NWP);

WEATHER FORECASTING;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER;

EID: 24944560859     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.15     Document Type: Article

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