Structure, growth rates, and tangent linear accuracy of adjoint sensitivities with respect to horizontal and vertical resolution

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2971-2988

  Ancell, Brian C ^a   Mass, Clifford F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DATA PROCESSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADJOINT SENSITIVITIES; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; PERTURBATION GROWTH RATES; RESPONSE FUNCTION; TANGENT LINEAR ACCURACY; VERTICAL RESOLUTION;

METEOROLOGY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ADJOINT METHOD; DATA ASSIMILATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750484698     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3227.1     Document Type: Article

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