Conditional nonlinear optimal perturbations: Adjoint-free calculation method and preliminary test

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1043-1049

  Wang, Bin ^a   Tan, Xiaowei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Singular vectors

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT TECHNIQUES; ADJOINTS; CALCULATION METHODS; CONDITIONAL NONLINEAR OPTIMAL PERTURBATION; LINEAR SINGULAR VECTOR; NATURAL EXTENSION; NEW APPROACHES; NON-LINEAR REGIMES; PREDICTION MODEL; SEARCH METHOD; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SINGULAR VECTORS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; THEORETICAL MODELS; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

OPTIMIZATION;

ADJOINT METHOD; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; VECTOR;

EID: 77955546362     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3022.1     Document Type: Article

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