Data assimilation in weather forecasting: A case study in PDE-constrained optimization

Optimization and Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 409-426

  Fisher, Mike ^a   Nocedal, Jorge ^b   Trémolet, Yannick ^a   Wright, Stephen J ^c  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin   (United States)

Author keywords

Large scale optimization; PDE constrained optimization; Variational assimilation; Weather forecasting

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS; COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEM; DATA ASSIMILATION; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FITTING PROBLEMS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LANCZOS METHODS; LARGE-SCALE OPTIMIZATION; MAJOR ELEMENTS; NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION SOLVER; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PDE-CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; PRECONDITIONERS; REAL-TIME SOLUTIONS; TIME WINDOWS; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; VERY LARGE DATUM; WEATHER FORECASTS; WEATHER PREDICTION;

AIRCRAFT ENGINES; DATA PROCESSING; GEOPHYSICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 69949154403     PISSN: 13894420     EISSN: 15732924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11081-008-9051-5     Document Type: Article

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