Adaptive ensemble covariance localization in ensemble 4D-VAR state estimation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1241-1255

  Bishop, Craig H ^a   Hodyss, Daniel ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Kalman filters; Variational analysis

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION MATRIX; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIMENSIONAL ERRORS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE PERTURBATION; FAR-FIELD; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; LOCALIZATION FUNCTIONS; LOCALIZATION TECHNIQUE; MATRIX; SPURIOUS FEATURES; SQUARE ROOTS; STREAMFUNCTIONS; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS;

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; KALMAN FILTERS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

DATA PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79955145811     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3403.1     Document Type: Article

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