Improving incremental balance in the GSI 3DVAR analysis system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1046-1060

  Kleist, Daryl T ^a,c,f   Parrish, David F ^a   Derber, John C ^a   Treadon, Russ ^a   Errico, Ronald M ^b,d   Yang, Runhua ^b,e  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^e SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS SYSTEM; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING CENTERS; LINEAR NORMALS; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NORTH AMERICAN; STATISTICAL INTERPOLATION; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION;

DATA PROCESSING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; INTERPOLATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 68249159687     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2623.1     Document Type: Article

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