A posteriori diagnostics in an ensemble of perturbed analyses

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3420-3436

  Desroziers, Gerald ^a   Berre, Loïk ^a   Chabot, Vincent ^a   Chapnik, Bernard ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; BACKGROUND ERRORS; ESTIMATION THEORY; OPTIMALITY; POSTERIORI; TWO SOURCES;

COST FUNCTIONS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ESTIMATION METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 70449093418     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2778.1     Document Type: Article

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