Data assimilation in slow-fast systems using homogenized climate models

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1359-1377

  Mitchell, Lewis ^a   Gottwald, Georg A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Kalman filters; Stochastic models

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS SKILLS; CHARACTERISTIC TIME; CLIMATE REGIME; DATA ASSIMILATION; DETERMINISTIC FORECASTS; DETERMINISTIC MODELS; ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECAST MODEL; HOMOGENIZATION TECHNIQUES; MULTISCALES; OBSERVATION INTERVAL; PARAMETERIZATION MODEL; PARAMETERIZATIONS; SLOW DYNAMICS; SLOW-FAST SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC CLIMATE MODELS; TIME SCALE SEPARATION; TOY MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELS; DYNAMICS; FORECASTING; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; KALMAN FILTERS; PARAMETERIZATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HOMOGENEITY; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84861472140     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0145.1     Document Type: Article

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