Flow-adaptive moderation of spurious ensemble correlations and its use in ensemble-based data assimilation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 629 B, 2007, Pages 2029-2044

  Bishop, Craig H ^a   Hodyss, Daniel ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariance localization; Local ensemble Kalman filter; Smoother

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS;

COVARIANCE LOCALIZATION; LOCAL ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; SMOOTHER;

KALMAN FILTERS;

CORRELATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; SMOOTHING; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 38849152191     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.169     Document Type: Article

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