The estimation of analysis error characteristics using an observation systems simulation experiment

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 695-708

  Errico, Ronald M ^a,b   Yang, Runhua ^b,c   Masutani, Michiko ^d   Woollen, John S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; EOS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SIMULATION; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 39749089410     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2007/0242     Document Type: Article

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