Correlations of control variables in variational data assimilation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 656, 2011, Pages 620-630

  Katz, D ^a   Lawless, A S ^a   Nichols, N K ^a   Cullen, M J P ^b   Bannister, R N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burger number; Control variable transform; Potential vorticity; Shallow water model

Indexed keywords

A-TRANSFORM; BREAK DOWN; BURGER NUMBERS; CONTROL VARIABLE; CONTROL VARIABLE TRANSFORM; DYNAMICAL REGIME; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SHALLOW-WATER MODELS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; TRANSFORMATION OF MODEL; TRANSFORMED VARIABLES; VARIABLE TRANSFORMATION; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM;

DATA PROCESSING; VORTICITY;

METADATA;

CORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; TRANSFORM; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79955437609     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.798     Document Type: Article

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