Assimilation of small scale observations with a nested adjoint model

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7085, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Amerault, Clark ^a   Doyle, James ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjoint; Data assimilation; Mesoscale

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT; ADJOINT MODELS; DATA ASSIMILATION; GRADIENT INFORMATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; LARGE-SCALE MODELS; MESOSCALE; MODELING SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; REMOTELY SENSED DATUM; SCALAR FUNCTIONS; SMALL SCALE; SMALL-SCALE FEATURES; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 57649115689     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.795348     Document Type: Conference Paper

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