An iterative EnKF for strongly nonlinear systems

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1988-2004

  Sakov, Pavel ^a   Oliver, Dean S ^b   Bertino, Laurent ^a  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^b Uni Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research   (Norway)

Author keywords

Kalman filters

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE SQUARE ROOT FILTER; ITERATIVE EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER; LARGE-SCALE MODELS; LINEAR PROPAGATION; LORENZ MODEL; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARTICLE FILTER; RESCALING; SIMPLE MODIFICATIONS; STRONGLY NONLINEAR SYSTEM; TRANSFORM MATRICES;

EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; KALMAN FILTERS;

NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84863331593     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00176.1     Document Type: Article

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