Balance of the background-error variances in the ensemble assimilation system DART/CAM

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2061-2079

  Zagar N ^a   Tribbia, J ^b   Anderson, J L ^b   Raeder, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Inertia gravity waves; Kalman filters; Rossby waves

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERE MODELS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE ADJUSTMENT KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLES; FUNCTION EXPANSION; GLOBAL DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; INERTIA-GRAVITY WAVES; MINIMUM VARIANCE; MODEL STATE; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; ROSSBY WAVE; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TOTAL VARIANCE; VARIANCE FIELDS; WAVE NUMBERS;

EXPERIMENTS; KALMAN FILTERS; OCEAN CURRENTS; RADIOSONDES;

DATA PROCESSING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GRAVITY WAVE; INFLATION; KALMAN FILTER; RADIOSONDE; ROSSBY WAVE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WIND FIELD;

EID: 79960714790     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3477.1     Document Type: Article

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