Limited-area ensemble-based data assimilation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2025-2045

  Meng, Zhiyong ^a   Zhang, Fuqing ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensembles; Kalman filters; Model comparison; Numerical weather prediction; Variational analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLES; MODEL COMPARISON; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS;

FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

DATA PROCESSING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79960730868     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3418.1     Document Type: Review

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