A new floating model level scheme for the assimilation of boundary-layer top inversions: The univariate assimilation of temperature

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 664, 2012, Pages 682-698

  Fowler, Alison ^a   Bannister, Ross ^a   Eyre, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Positional errors; Variational data assimilation

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE ERRORS; CONTROL VARIABLE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR COVARIANCES; FLOATING MODEL; FORECAST ERRORS; GAUSSIAN STATISTICS; INVERSION STRUCTURES; LEVEL SCHEMES; NON-GAUSSIAN; POSITION ERRORS; POSITIONAL ERRORS; RADIOSONDE DATAS; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; UNIVARIATE; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR STATISTICS; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; RADIOSONDES;

ERRORS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA INVERSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84859764796     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.955     Document Type: Article

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