Computation of observation sensitivity and observation impact in incremental variational data assimilation

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 964-978

  Trémolet, Yannick ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BORN APPROXIMATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 52949123309     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2008.00349.x     Document Type: Article

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