A new approach to data assimilation

Acta Meteorologica Sinica

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 275-282

  Wang, Bin ^a   Zhao, Ying ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Backward 4DVar; Mapped observation; Timesaving; Variational data assimilation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; MAPPING METHOD; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; NUMERICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 33845363568     PISSN: 08940525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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