Four-dimensional variational data assimilation for high resolution nested models

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 137-141

  Baxter, G M ^a   Dance, S L ^a   Lawless, A S ^a   Nichols, N K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

4D Var; Advection diffusion equation; Sine transform

Indexed keywords

4D-VAR; ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; SINE TRANSFORM; SPATIAL SCALE;

ADVECTION; DATA PROCESSING; DIFFUSION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

VALUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 79954667315     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2011.01.023     Document Type: Article

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