Conditional nonlinear optimal perturbation of a T21L3 quasi-geostrophic model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 633 B, 2008, Pages 1027-1038

  Jiang, Zhina ^a,b   Mu, Mu ^b,c   Wang, Donghai ^a  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c NONE   (China)

Author keywords

Conditional Nonlinear Optimal Perturbation; Linear Singular Vector; Nonlinearity

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; THEOREM PROVING; VECTORS;

CONDITIONAL NONLINEAR OPTIMAL PERTURBATION; CONSTRAINT CONDITIONS; ENERGY NORM; ENSTROPHY; FORECAST TIME; LARGE-SCALE DISTURBANCES; LINEAR APPROXIMATIONS; LINEAR COUNTERPARTS; LINEAR SINGULAR VECTOR; LOCALIZED STRUCTURES; NATURAL GENERALIZATION; NON LINEARITIES; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; NON-LINEAR REGIMES; NONLINEARITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICA L RESULTS; OPTIMAL PERTURBATION; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC MODEL; SIMILARITY INDEX; SINGULAR VECTORS; SMALL-SCALE DISTURBANCES; SPATIAL PATTERNING; SPECTRAL MODELING; TIME INTERVALS; WAVE TRAINS; ZONAL FLOWS; ENERGY NORMS; FORECAST TIMES; GEOSTROPHIC MODELS; NATURAL GENERALIZATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; NONLINEAR REGIMES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTIMAL PERTURBATIONS; PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC; SIMILARITY INDICES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPECTRAL MODELS;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; VECTOR; WEATHER FORECASTING; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ZONAL FLOW;

LILY SYMPTOMLESS VIRUS;

EID: 48649086314     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.256     Document Type: Article

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