Handling nonlinearity in an ensemble Kalman filter: Experiments with the three-variable lorenz model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2628-2646

  Yang, Shu Chih ^a   Kalnay, Eugenia ^b   Hunt, Brian ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Kalman filters; Numerical weather prediction forecasting

Indexed keywords

4D-VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; ANALYSIS ACCURACY; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE PERTURBATION; LORENZ MODEL; LOW FREQUENCY; NON-LINEAR ERROR; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR GROWTH; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OUTER LOOP; QUASI-STATIC; RUNNING-IN; TIME STEP; VAR ANALYSIS; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; VALUE ENGINEERING;

KALMAN FILTERS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84864854483     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00313.1     Document Type: Article

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