Weak constraints in four-dimensional variational data assimilation

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 767-776

  Watkinson, Laura R ^a   Lawless, Amos S ^a   Nichols, Nancy K ^a   Roulstone, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRADIENT METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 39749091227     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2007/0249     Document Type: Article

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