A moment matching ensemble filter for nonlinear non-gaussian data assimilation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3964-3973

  Lei, Jing ^a   Bickel, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Ensembles; Filtering techniques; Forecasting; Kalman filters

Indexed keywords

BIAS; DE-BIASING; ENSEMBLE FILTER; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLES; FILTERING TECHNIQUES; GAUSSIANS; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS; LARGE SYSTEM; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MOMENT-MATCHING; NON-LINEAR NON-GAUSSIAN; PARTICLE FILTER; STATE VARIABLES;

FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTERS;

DATA PROCESSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84855791991     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3553.1     Document Type: Article

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