Gravity wave drag estimation from global analyses using variational data assimilation principles. I: Theory and implementation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 609, 2005, Pages 1821-1840

  Pulido, M ^a,b   Thuburn, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL NORDESTE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Adjoint model; Middle atmosphere; Parameter estimation; Twin experiments

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DRAG; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GRADIENT METHODS; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ADJOINT MODEL; GRAVITY WAVE DRAG; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; TWIN EXPERIMENTS;

METEOROLOGY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DRAG COEFFICIENT; GRAVITY WAVE;

EID: 27644572000     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.116     Document Type: Article

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