Background-error correlation model based on the implicit solution of a diffusion equation

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 45-53

  Carrier, Matthew J ^a   Ngodock, Hans ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D Var; Background error covariance; Correlation; Data assimilation

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CORRELATION DATA; CORRELATION MODELS; CPU TIME; CURVILINEAR GRIDS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; ERROR CORRELATION; EXPLICIT METHOD; EXPLICIT SOLUTIONS; GENERALIZED DIFFUSION EQUATION; IMPLICIT METHODS; MODEL ERRORS; NONUNIFORM; NUMERICAL EFFICIENCY; OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; TIME STEP; UNCONDITIONALLY STABLE;

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA PROCESSING; DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; EQUATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 77955416144     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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