Data assimilation: From photon counts to Earth System forecasts

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1258-1267

  Mathieu, Pierre Philippe ^a   O'Neill, Alan ^b  

^a ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Earth Observation; Earth Observation System of systems; Earth System modelling; Kalman Filter; Variational assimilation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA FUSION; EARTH SCIENCES; KALMAN FILTERS; PHOTONS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; EARTH OBSERVATION SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION;

DATA ACQUISITION;

CARBON CYCLE; DATA ASSIMILATION; EOS; KALMAN FILTER; OCEANOGRAPHY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 40649107376     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.02.040     Document Type: Article

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