Introducing the coupling information in a limited-area variational assimilation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 632, 2008, Pages 723-735

  Guidard, Vincent ^a   Fischer, Claude ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

ALADIN 3D Var; ARP GE 4D Var; Jk; LAM assimilation

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; FORECASTING; GERMANIUM; VALUE ENGINEERING;

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; ALADIN 3D-VAR; ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; COUPLING SYSTEMS; DO-MAINS; ERROR COVARIANCE MATRIXES; GLOBAL ANALYSES; GLOBAL DATUMS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; INFORMATION VECTORS; JK; LAM ASSIMILATION; MINIMIZATION PROBLEMS; MODELIZATION; SCALE PARAMETERS; SQUARE ERRORS; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATIONS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; RADIOSONDE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 55349130006     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.215     Document Type: Article

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