Use of potential vorticity for incremental data assimilation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 621 C, 2006, Pages 2867-2886

  Wlasak, Marek ^a,c   Nichols, N K ^a   Roulstone, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burger number; Linearization; Rossby Haurwitz waves

Indexed keywords

BALANCE EQUATIONS; BURGER NUMBER; COVARIANCE MODELS; DATA ASSIMILATIONS; FLOW REGIMES; HELMHOLTZ DECOMPOSITIONS; INCREMENTAL DATUM; NEW APPROACHES; POTENTIAL VORTICITIES; ROSSBY-HAURWITZ WAVES; ROTATIONAL PARTS; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATIONS; WIND FIELDS;

DECOMPOSITION; VORTICITY;

LINEARIZATION;

EID: 39049142343     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.06.02     Document Type: Article

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