Accounting for skewness in ensemble data assimilation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2346-2358

  Hodyss, Daniel ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Data assimilation; Ensembles; Filtering techniques; Kalman filters; Statistical techniques

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN METHODS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLES; FILTERING TECHNIQUE; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; KALMAN FILTERS; SHEAR FLOW;

ALGORITHMS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; SKEWNESS;

EID: 84864832297     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00198.1     Document Type: Article

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