A regulated localization scheme for ensemble-based Kalman filters

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 664, 2012, Pages 802-812

  Nerger, Lars ^a   Janjić, Tijana ^a   Schröter, Jens ^a   Hiller, Wolfgang ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data assimilation

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS; ESTIMATION ERRORS; KALMAN GAIN; LOCAL REGION; LOCALIZATION EFFECT; LOCALIZATION FUNCTIONS; LOCALIZATION METHOD; LOCALIZATION SCHEMES; TWIN EXPERIMENTS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

KALMAN FILTERS;

ASSIMILATION EFFICIENCY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 84859755844     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.945     Document Type: Article

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