Background-error correlation length-scale estimates and their sampling statistics

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 631 PART B, 2008, Pages 497-508

  Pannekoucke, Olivier ^a   Berre, L ^a   Desroziers, G ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Diagnosis; Ensemble; Length scale approximation; Sampling noise

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; SAMPLING; STATISTICS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; LENGTH-SCALE APPROXIMATION; SAMPLING NOISE;

CORRELATION METHODS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SAMPLING; STANDARD (REFERENCE); WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 44349153459     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.212     Document Type: Article

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