Assimilation of along-track altimeter data in the tropical Pacific region of a global OGCM ensemble

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 610 B, 2005, Pages 2455-2472

  Leeuwenburgh, O ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ensemble Kalman filter; Ensemble square root filter

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; KALMAN FILTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE SQUARE ROOT FILTER; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

METEOROLOGY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

EID: 27144473876     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.146     Document Type: Article

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