Significance testing for variational assimilation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130, Issue 600 PART A, 2004, Pages 1815-1838

  Muccino, Julia C ^a   Hubele, Norma F ^b   Bennett, Andrew F ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kolmogorov Smirnov test; Recurrent processes; Representer method

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HYPOTHESIS TESTS; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATIONS;

METEOROLOGY;

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; METEOROLOGY;

EID: 3242790062     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.03.47     Document Type: Article

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