On some aspects of the definition of initial conditions for ensemble prediction

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3260-3272

  Descamps, L ^a   Talagrand, O ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KALMAN FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE TRANSFORM KALMAN FILTER; LOW-ORDER MODEL; THREE-LEVEL QUASIGEOSTROPHIC ATMOSPHERIC MODEL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER;

EID: 34848920881     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3452.1     Document Type: Article

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