A comparison of the hybrid and EnSRF analysis schemes in the presence of model errors due to unresolved scales

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3219-3232

  Wang, Xuguang ^a   Hamill, Thomas M ^b   Whitaker, Jeffrey S ^b   Bishop, Craig H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE PERTURBATION; ENSEMBLE SQUARE ROOT FILTER; ERROR COVARIANCES; FORECAST ERRORS; HYBRID ANALYSIS; HYBRID SCHEME; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MODEL COMPARISON; MODEL ERRORS; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; RANDOM NOISE; SAMPLING ERRORS; SPECTRAL COEFFICIENTS; STATIC BACKGROUND; TRUNCATION ERRORS; TWO LAYERS; UNRESOLVED SCALE;

ADDITIVE NOISE; CONTROL THEORY; ERRORS; EXPERIMENTS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORECASTING; SPECTROSCOPY;

SIMULATORS;

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

EID: 70449129495     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2923.1     Document Type: Article

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