Sampling errors in ensemble kalman filtering. Part I: Theory

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3035-3049

  Sacher, William ^a   Bartello, Peter ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; COVARIANCE MATRIX; ERRORS; KALMAN FILTERS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; WAVE FILTERS;

A-STABLE; ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTERING; ERROR COVARIANCE MATRIX; KALMAN GAIN; PERFECT MODEL; SAMPLING ERRORS; TEST CASES;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR CORRECTION; KALMAN FILTER;

EID: 53249135012     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2323.1     Document Type: Article

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