A hybrid nudging-ensemble Kalman filter approach to data assimilation. Part II: Application in a shallow-water model

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lei, Lili ^a   Stauffer, David R ^a   Deng, Aijun ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic balance; Ensemble Kalman filter (enkf); Hybrid data assimilation; Insertion noise; nudging; Shallow water model

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW WATER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84865148531     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v64i0.18485     Document Type: Article

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