An ensemble multiscale filter for large nonlinear data assimilation problems

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 678-698

  Zhou, Yuhua ^a   McLaughlin, Dennis ^a,b   Entekhabi, Dara ^a   Ng, Gene Hua Crystal ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; KALMAN FILTERS; SAMPLING; STATISTICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE MULTISCALE KALMAN FILTER; MULTISCALE TREE;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ESTIMATION METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 44449121297     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2064.1     Document Type: Article

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