MoSST_DAS: The first generation geomagnetic data assimilation framework

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 85-108

  Kuang, Weijia ^a   Tangborn, Andrew ^b   Jiang, Weiyuan ^b   Liu, Don ^b   Sun, Zhibin ^b   Bloxham, Jeremy ^c   Wei, Zigang ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensemble forecasting; Geodynamo; Geomagnetism

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849116352     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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