Nonlinear data assimilation in geosciences: An extremely efficient particle filter

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 653, 2010, Pages 1991-1999

  Van Leeuwen, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Particle filtering

Indexed keywords

CURSE OF DIMENSIONALITY; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS; GEOSCIENCES; HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; LORENZ MODEL; NONLINEAR DATA; NUMERICAL MODELS; PARTICLE FILTER; PARTICLE FILTERING; RESEARCH FIELDS; SCALE INVARIANCE; VARIATIONAL METHODS;

NONLINEAR FILTERING; NUMERICAL METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

DATA PROCESSING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPLEXITY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; KALMAN FILTER; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 78650057011     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.699     Document Type: Article

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