Technical Note: Propagating correlations in atmospheric inversions using different Kalman update smoothers

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 921-929

  Tang, J ^a,b   Zhuang, Q ^a,b,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC GAS; CORRELATION; KALMAN FILTER; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TRACE GAS;

EID: 79551677113     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-921-2011     Document Type: Article

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