Balanced tropical data assimilation based on a study of equatorial waves in ECMWF short-range forecast errors

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 607, 2005, Pages 987-1011

  Žagar, Nedjeljka ^a   Andersson, Erik ^b   Fisher, Michael ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Covariance modelling; Ensemble methods; Mass wind coupling; Tropics; Variational data assimilation

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND EFFECTS;

COVARIANCE MODELLING; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE METHODS; MASS WIND COUPLING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD;

EID: 27644461361     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.54     Document Type: Article

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