Filtering turbulent sparsely observed geophysical flows

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1050-1083

  Harlim, John ^a   Majda, Andrew J ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Filtering techniques; Kalman filter; Rossby waves; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BAROTROPIC; CENTRAL PROBLEMS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE ADJUSTMENT KALMAN FILTER; FILTERING PERFORMANCE; FILTERING TECHNIQUE; FILTERING TECHNIQUES; GEOPHYSICAL FLOWS; LOCAL LEAST SQUARES; MODEL ERRORS; MULTIPLICATIVE BIAS; NON-GAUSSIAN STATISTICS; ON THE FLIES; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC MODEL; REGIME TRANSITION; RMS ERRORS; ROSSBY WAVE; ROSSBY WAVES; SHEAR TURBULENCES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; STOCHASTIC FILTERING; STRINGENT TEST; TURBULENT CASCADE; TURBULENT FLUCTUATION; TURBULENT SPECTRUM; TWO LAYERS; ZONAL JETS;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DATA PROCESSING; EQUIPMENT TESTING; ERRORS; KALMAN FILTERS; OCEAN CURRENTS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TEST FACILITIES;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; DATA ASSIMILATION; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; ROSSBY WAVE; STOCHASTICITY; TURBULENCE;

EID: 77955547132     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3113.1     Document Type: Article

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