On domain localization in ensemble-based Kalman filter algorithms

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2046-2060

  Janjić, Tijana ^a   Nerger, Lars ^a   Albertella, Alberta ^b   SchröTer, Jens ^a   Skachko, Sergey ^c  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Institute for Astronomical und Physical Geodesy   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Ensembles; Error analysis; Forecasting; Kalman filters

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION FUNCTION; CORRELATION MATRIX; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITIONS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLES; ERROR COVARIANCE MATRIX; FILTER ALGORITHM; FINITE-ELEMENT; FORECAST ERRORS; KALMAN FILTER ALGORITHMS; LOCALIZATION TECHNIQUE; OBSERVATION ERRORS; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS; SATELLITE DATA; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; SUBDOMAIN; SUBDOMAIN BOUNDARY;

ALGORITHMS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTERS;

TRACKING (POSITION);

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; SATELLITE DATA; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79960703923     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3552.1     Document Type: Article

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