Covariance localisation and balance in an Ensemble Kalman Filter

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 642, 2009, Pages 1157-1176

  Kepert, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Background error; Covariance modeling; Data assimilation

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND ERROR; COVARIANCE MODELING; COVARIANCE MODELS; CROSS-COVARIANCE; DATA ASSIMILATION; DELETERIOUS EFFECTS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; GEOSTROPHIC BALANCE; IMPROVED METHODS; LOCAL COVARIANCE; LOCALISATION; SAMPLING ERRORS; STREAMFUNCTIONS; TEST SYSTEMS; TWIN EXPERIMENTS; VELOCITY POTENTIALS; WIND COMPONENTS;

CONTROL THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; MARINE APPLICATIONS;

KALMAN FILTERS;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SAMPLING; TRANSFORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 70149088574     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.443     Document Type: Article

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