Estimation of the local diffusion tensor and normalization for heterogeneous correlation modelling using a diffusion equation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 635, 2008, Pages 1425-1438

  Pannekoucke, O ^a   Massart, S ^b  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b CERFACS   (France)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Background error correlation modelling; Diffusion operator; Ensemble

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARSENIC; ATMOSPHERICS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; DIFFUSION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FORECASTING; GRID COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; TENSORS;

ASSIMILATION; ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; BACKGROUND ERRORS; BACKGROUND-ERROR CORRELATION MODELLING; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; COMPUTING CORRELATIONS; CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; CORRELATION LENGTHS; CORRELATION MATRIXES; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION FIELDS; DIFFUSION OPERATOR; DIFFUSION OPERATORS; DIFFUSION TENSORS; ENSEMBLE; ERROR CORRELATIONS; ERROR COVARIANCE MATRIXES; FIELD SPECTRUMS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATIONS; KEY COMPONENTS; LOCAL CORRELATIONS; NUMERICAL COSTS; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; STRATOSPHERIC OZONES;

CORRELATION METHODS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; CORRELATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MATRIX; MODEL VALIDATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 57349186760     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.288     Document Type: Article

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