A review of forecast error covariance statistics in atmospheric variational data assimilation. II: Modelling the forecast error covariance statistics

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 637, 2008, Pages 1971-1996

  Bannister, R N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Balance; Control variable transforms; Flow dependency; Multivariate

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; ERROR STATISTICS; ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

BACKGROUND ERRORS; CONTROL SPACES; CONTROL VARIABLE TRANSFORMS; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES; FIRST PRINCIPLES; FLOW DEPENDENCY; FORECAST ERRORS; FORECAST MODELS; FUTURE CHALLENGES; MULTIVARIATE; NEW IDEAS; OPERATIONAL SETTINGS; PHYSICAL SPACES; RECURSIVE FILTERS; SPATIALLY CORRELATED; STATIC PROPERTIES; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATIONS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATIONS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; MODELING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 58049193556     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.340     Document Type: Review

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