Conditioning and preconditioning of the variational data assimilation problem

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 252-256

  Haben, S A ^a   Lawless, A S ^a   Nichols, N K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Condition number; Error covariances; Hessian; Least squares optimization; Variational data assimilation

Indexed keywords

CONDITION NUMBERS; ERROR COVARIANCES; HESSIAN; LEAST-SQUARES OPTIMIZATION; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; ERRORS; NUMBER THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; VALUE ENGINEERING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 79954847227     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2010.11.025     Document Type: Article

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