Singular vectors and excess growths in semi-implicit non-hydrostatic models

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 619, 2006, Pages 2087-2094

  Payne, Tim J ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Perturbation forecast model; Total energy norm

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENERGY GROWTH; LINEARIZED NON-HYDROSTATIC MODEL; METEOROLOGICAL SINGULAR VECTOR; SEMI-IMPLICIT TIME DISCRETIZATION;

METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENERGY FLUX; HYDROSTATICS; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION; TIME SERIES;

EID: 33750121675     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.52     Document Type: Article

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