Implications of the form of the ensemble transformation in the ensemble square root filters

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1042-1053

  Sakov, Pavel ^a   Oke, Peter R ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; KALMAN FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RANDOM PROCESSES;

DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE SQUARE ROOT FILTERS; ENSEMBLE TRANSFORMATION; MEAN-PRESERVING RANDOM ROTATIONS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; MATRIX; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 39049173291     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2021.1     Document Type: Article

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