The value of observations. I: Data denial experiments for the Atlantic and the Pacific

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 628, 2007, Pages 1803-1815

  Kelly, Graeme ^a   Thépaut, Jean Noël ^a   Buizza, Roberto ^a   Cardinali, Carla ^a  

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

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Targeted observations

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; TARGETED OBSERVATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 36749024060     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.150     Document Type: Article

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