Weight interpolation for efficient data assimilation with the Local Ensemble Transfom Kalman Filter

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 638, 2009, Pages 251-262

  Yang, Shu Chih ^a,b   Kalnay, Eugenia ^a   Hunt, Brian ^a   Bowler, Neill E ^c  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D Var; 4D Var; LETKF

Indexed keywords

3D-VAR; 4D-VAR; ANALYSIS ACCURACY; COARSER GRID; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; GRID POINTS; HIGH-RESOLUTION GRIDS; INTERPOLATION METHOD; LETKF;

CONTROL THEORY; INTERPOLATION; KALMAN FILTERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VALUE ENGINEERING;

GRID COMPUTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTERPOLATION; KALMAN FILTER; TRANSFORM; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 67649438818     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.353     Document Type: Article

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