On the sensitivity equations of four-dimensional variational (4D-Var) data assimilation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3050-3065

  Daescu, Dacian N ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; ELECTRONIC WARFARE; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR STATISTICS; FORECASTING; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MILITARY ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES; MILITARY OPERATIONS; SPECIFICATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFORTS; COMPUTATIONAL ISSUES; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA IMPACT; ERROR COVARIANCES; ERROR VARIANCES; FINITE VOLUMES; FIRST-ORDER OPTIMALITY CONDITION; FORECAST ERRORS; FORECAST SENSITIVITY; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SENSITIVITY EQUATIONS; SHALLOW-WATER MODELS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; SUPPLEMENTARY DATA; TIME-DEPENDENT; UNCONSTRAINED MINIMIZATION;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 53249098800     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2382.1     Document Type: Article

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