Diagnostics of linear and incremental approximations in 4D-Var

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130, Issue 601 PART B, 2004, Pages 2233-2251

  Trémolet, Yannick ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Linearity; Variational assimilation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LINEAR SYSTEMS; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

4D-VAR FORMULATION; LINEARIZED PHYSICS; NONLINEAR MODELS; RESOLUTION CHANGES;

METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; LINEARITY;

EID: 4844230865     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.03.33     Document Type: Article

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