Use of randomization to diagnose the impact of observations on analyses and forecasts

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 611, 2005, Pages 2821-2837

  Desroziers, Gérald ^a   Brousseau, Pierre ^a   Chapnik, Bernard ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Analysis and forecast errors; Data assimilation

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RANDOM PROCESSES; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR REDUCTION; ERROR VARIANCE; RANDOMIZATION PROCEDURE;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 28144446419     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.151     Document Type: Article

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