Maximum likelihood estimation of inflation factors on error covariance matrices for ensemble Kalman filter assimilation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 662, 2012, Pages 263-273

  Liang, Xiao ^a   Zheng, Xiaogu ^a   Zhang, Shupeng ^a   Wu, Guocan ^a   Dai, Yongjiu ^a   Li, Yong ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Error covariance inflation; Parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

CORRELATED OBSERVATIONS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ERROR COVARIANCE INFLATION; ERROR COVARIANCES; FORECAST ERRORS; INFLATION FACTORS; INFLATION METHOD; LORENZ MODEL; OBSERVATION ERRORS; TIME-DEPENDENT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS;

DATA PROCESSING; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTERS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

CORRELATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ESTIMATION METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84856232855     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.912     Document Type: Article

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