The value of observations. II: The value of observations located in singular-vector-based target areas

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 628, 2007, Pages 1817-1832

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

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

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Targeted observations

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; VECTORS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; SINGULAR VECTOR; TARGETED OBSERVATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VECTOR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 36749067943     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.149     Document Type: Article

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