Recent progress of data assimilation methods in meteorology

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 85 B, Issue , 2007, Pages 331-361

  Tsuyuki, Tadashi ^a   Miyoshi, Takemasa ^a  

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRANSFORM; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34848889280     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.85B.331     Document Type: Review

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