A unification of ensemble square root Kalman filters

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2335-2345

  Nerger, Lars ^a   Janjić, Tijana ^a   SchröTer, Jens ^a   Hiller, Wolfgang ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Kalman filters

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE SQUARE ROOT FILTER; KALMAN FILTER ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SQUARE ROOT KALMAN FILTER; SQUARE ROOTS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY;

KALMAN FILTERS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER;

EID: 84864832235     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00102.1     Document Type: Article

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