Variational optimization for global climate analysis on ESA's high performance computing grid

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1450-1463

  Loscher A ^a   Retscher, C ^b   Fusco, L ^b   Goncalves, P ^c   Brito, F ^c   Kirchengast, G ^d  

^a DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^c Terradue Srl   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

3D VAR; Assimilation; CHAMP; Climate change; Climatology; Distributed computing; ERA40 climatology; ESA's high performance computing Grid on Demand; Natural climate variability; Radio occultation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; OPTIMIZATION; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

ERA40 CLIMATOLOGY; NATURAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; RADIO OCCULTATION;

GRID COMPUTING;

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE SENSOR;

EID: 40949160213     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.05.022     Document Type: Article

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