Objective filtering of ensemble-based background-error variances

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 642, 2009, Pages 1177-1199

  Raynaud, Laure ^a   Berre, Loïk ^a   Desroziers, Gérald ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Ensemble Kalman Filter; Ensemble of assimilations; Linear estimation; Sampling noise

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND ERRORS; BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE OF ASSIMILATIONS; ERROR VARIANCE; ESTIMATED VARIANCE; ESTIMATION ERRORS; FILTERING PROCEDURES; FINITE SIZE; GE SYSTEMS; IMPACT STUDY; LINEAR ESTIMATION; OBJECTIVE FILTERING; SAMPLING NOISE; SCALE SEPARATION; SIGNAL OF INTERESTS; SIGNAL/NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; VARIANCE ESTIMATE; VARIANCE ESTIMATION; VARIANCE FIELDS;

CONTROL THEORY; ESTIMATION; KALMAN FILTERS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; METEOROLOGY; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 70149109155     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.438     Document Type: Article

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