Diagnosis and tuning of observational error in a quasi-operational data assimilation setting

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 615, 2006, Pages 543-565

  Chapnik, Bernard ^a   Desroziers, Gerald ^a   Rabier, Florence ^a   Talagrand, Olivier ^b  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Degrees of Freedom for Signal; Error tuning; Parameter estimation; Variational assimilation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM FOR SIGNAL; ERROR TUNING; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION;

METEOROLOGY;

DATA ASSIMILATION;

EID: 33645500221     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.102     Document Type: Article

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