Bias and data assimilation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 613, 2006, Pages 3323-3343

  Dee, D P ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive bias correction; Bias aware; Bias blind; Kalman filter; Model bias; Observation bias; Parameter estimation; Systematic errors; Weak constraint 4D Var

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BIAS CORRECTION; BIAS-AWARE; BIAS-BLIND; OBSERVATION BIAS; WEAK-CONSTRAINT 4D-VAR;

CONTROL THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; ERRORS; KALMAN FILTERS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VALUE ENGINEERING;

SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

EID: 33846868359     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.137     Document Type: Article

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