Accounting for model errors in ensemble data assimilation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3407-3419

  Li, Hong ^a   Kalnay, Eugenia ^b   Miyoshi, Takemasa ^a   Danforth, Christopher M ^c  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c Vermont Advanced Computing Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS REMOVAL; DENSE REGION; ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; FORECAST ERRORS; LOW DIMENSIONAL; MODEL ERRORS; REANALYSIS; STATE-DEPENDENT; SYSTEM NOISE;

CONTROL THEORY; KALMAN FILTERS;

RANDOM ERRORS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 70449106810     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2766.1     Document Type: Article

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