On the deterministic observation impact guidance: A geometrical perspective

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3567-3574

  Daescu, Dacian N ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJOINTS; ATMOSPHERIC DATA; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; FORECAST ERRORS; LINEAR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT; OBSERVATION SPACE; OBSERVING SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS; UNCERTAINTY PROPAGATION; VALUE ADDED; VARIABLE MODEL;

MILITARY ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EXPERIMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 70449115267     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2954.1     Document Type: Article

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