Sequential state and variance estimation within the ensemble Kalman filter

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3194-3208

  Stroud, Jonathan R ^a   Bengtsson, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; KALMAN FILTERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTION; SQUARE ROOT ASSIMILATION;

METEOROLOGY;

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ESTIMATION METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS;

EID: 34848876373     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3460.1     Document Type: Article

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