A demonstration of cycled 4D-Var in the presence of model error

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 651, 2010, Pages 1379-1395

  Cullen, M J P ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Error growth

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND ERRORS; BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR GROWTH; FAST MODE; FORECAST MODEL; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; MATRIX; MODEL ERRORS; RANDOM MODEL; RANDOM PERTURBATIONS; SLOW MODE; TIME-PERIODS; TIME-SCALES; TOY MODELS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; FORECASTING; VALUE ENGINEERING;

DATA PROCESSING;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; MATRIX; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77956294438     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.653     Document Type: Article

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