Importance of using ensemble estimated background error covariances for the quality of atmospheric ozone analyses

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 665, 2012, Pages 889-905

  Massart, S ^a   Piacentini, A ^a   Pannekoucke, O ^b  

^a CERFACS   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Atmospheric chemistry; Background error covariance matrix; Data assimilation

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC OZONE; BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; BASIC MODELS; CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODELS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE METHODS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; OZONE MONITORING INSTRUMENTS; OZONE PROFILES; OZONESONDES; PARALLEL ANALYSIS; TOTAL OZONE COLUMN; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERICS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR STATISTICS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OZONE;

QUALITY CONTROL;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; OZONE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84862238181     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.971     Document Type: Article

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