A review of issues in ensemble-based Kalman filtering

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 795-818

  Ehrendorfer, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTERS; METEOROLOGY; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GAUSSIAN METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; NONLINEARITY; SAMPLING; STOCHASTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 39849084839     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2007/0256     Document Type: Review

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