Assimilation of stratospheric temperature and ozone with an ensemble Kalman filter in a chemistry-climate model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3389-3404

  Milewski, Thomas ^a   Bourqui, Michel S ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmospheric; Chemistry; Climate models; Data assimilation; Ensembles; Ozone; Stratosphere

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE MODELS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DECORRELATIONS; DYNAMICAL FIELDS; ENSEMBLE AVERAGES; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE STATISTICS; ENSEMBLES; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MATRIX; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER FOR PASSIVE ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDINGS; OBSERVATION SPACE; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; OZONE ANALYSIS; OZONE FIELDS; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE CHEMISTRY; STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE FIELD;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COVARIANCE MATRIX; DATA PROCESSING; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; ERROR STATISTICS; KALMAN FILTERS; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELING; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; MATRIX; OZONE; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 80053431589     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3540.1     Document Type: Article

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