Intercomparison of the primal and dual formulations of variational data assimilation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 633 B, 2008, Pages 1015-1025

  Akkraoui, Amal El ^a   Gauthier, Pierre ^a,b   Pellerin, Simon ^c   Buis, Samuel ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d CERFACS   (France)

Author keywords

3D Var; 4D Var; Duality; PSAS

Indexed keywords

VALUE ENGINEERING; OPTIMIZATION;

3D-VAR; ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; CONVERGENCE RATES; DUALITY; INTER-COMPARISON; METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE OF CANADA; MINIMIZATION PROBLEMS; NON-LINEARITIES; PSAS; QUADRATIC PROBLEMS; SINGULAR VECTORS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; 4D-VAR; ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCES; INCREMENTAL FORMS; NON LINEARITIES; OBSERVATION SPACES; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATIONS;

PEELING;

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; OPTIMIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING; METEOROLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 48649099281     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.257     Document Type: Article

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