The local ensemble transform kalman filter with the weather research and forecasting model: Experiments with real observations

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 321-333

  Miyoshi, Takemasa ^a   Kunii, Masaru ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensemble kalman filter; Numerical weather prediction

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; DYNAMICAL MODEL; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; GEOPHYSICAL MODELS; INFLATION PARAMETERS; INHOMOGENEITIES; MESOSCALE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PARALLEL COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; THEORETICAL STUDY; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WRF MODEL;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; EXPERIMENTS; KALMAN FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; INFLATION; KALMAN FILTER; MODELING; TRANSFORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84861117548     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-011-0373-4     Document Type: Article

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