Chemical state estimation for the middle atmosphere by four-dimensional variational data assimilation: System configuration

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Elbern, H ^a,b   Schwinger, J ^a   Botchorishvili, R ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR ALGORITHMS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SCAI   (Germany)

^d TBILISI STATE UNIVERSITY   (Georgia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERICS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS; WATER VAPOR;

ADJOINTS; ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; CHEMICAL DATA; CHEMICAL STATE; CONTROL MODEL; COVARIANCE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC FORMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; FORECAST ERRORS; FORECAST MODEL; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; HALOGEN OCCULTATION EXPERIMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER FOR PASSIVE ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDINGS; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; NUMERICAL EFFICIENCY; NUMERICAL FEATURES; POSTERIORI; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SAGE II; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL INTERPOLATION; STATE MONITORING; STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; STRATOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS; TIME STEP; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; WEATHER SERVICES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENVISAT-1; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORECASTING METHOD; INTERFEROMETER; METHANE; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; NITRIC ACID; NITROGEN OXIDES; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 77950160759     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD011953     Document Type: Article

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