Adjoint estimation of the variation in model functional output due to the assimilation of data

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1705-1716

  Daescu, Dacian N ^a   Todling, Ricardo ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJOINTS; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; FUNCTIONAL OUTPUTS; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; HIGH-ORDER APPROXIMATION; LINEAR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NUMERICAL-QUADRATURE METHOD; OUTER LOOP; PARAMETRIC APPROACH; QUADRATURE APPROXIMATIONS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; TAYLOR-SERIES;

CONTROL THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; MILITARY ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES; NASA; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 68249143006     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2659.1     Document Type: Article

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