Accounting for an imperfect model in 4D-Var

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 621, 2006, Pages 2483-2504

  Trémolet, Yannick ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Model bias; Model error; Variational data assimilation; Weak constraint

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ERRORS; PROBABILITY;

FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; MODEL-ERROR REPRESENTATION; WEAK CONSTRAINT;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; MODELING;

EID: 33846869913     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.224     Document Type: Article

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