Using model reduction methods within incremental four-dimensional variational data assimilation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1511-1522

  Lawless, A S ^a   Nichols, N K ^a   Boess, C ^b   Bunse Gerstner, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONTROL THEORY; COST FUNCTIONS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; DYNAMICS; FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; STANDARDS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

(E ,2E) THEORY; (MIN ,MAX ,+) FUNCTIONS; AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION (DVAR); MODEL REDUCTION TECHNIQUES; MODEL REDUCTIONS; NEW METHODS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION (ODA); SHALLOW-WATER MODELS; SIMPLIFIED FUNCTIONS; SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE; TRUNCATION TECHNIQUES;

DATA REDUCTION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 45749113079     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2103.1     Document Type: Article

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