Evaluation of a spatial/spectral covariance localization approach for atmospheric data assimilation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 617-636

  Buehner, Mark ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Variational analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DATA; ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS; BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ESTIMATION ERRORS; IMPROVED FORECAST; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL LOCALIZATION; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; WAVE NUMBERS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY;

ESTIMATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84857073373     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-10-05052.1     Document Type: Article

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