Accounting for model error in variational data assimilation: A deterministic formulation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3369-3386

  Carrassi, Alberto ^a   Vannitsem, Stéphane ^a  

^a ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DETERMINISTIC MODELS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; GAUSSIANS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LARGE SYSTEM; LORENZ MODEL; MODEL ERRORS; NATURAL SYSTEMS; PREDICTION ACCURACY; THREE-COMPONENT; UNCORRELATED NOISE; UNSTABLE SYSTEM; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION;

DATA PROCESSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77958477631     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3192.1     Document Type: Article

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