Adaptive data assimilation including the effect of spatial variations in observation error

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 617, 2006, Pages 1225-1257

  Frehlich, Rod ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensemble Forecasts; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR STATISTICS; INTERPOLATION; KALMAN FILTERING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; OBSERVATION ERROR; SPATIAL VARIATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER LIDAR; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33746218746     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.146     Document Type: Article

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