On the use of EDA background error variances in the ECMWF 4D-Var

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 667, 2012, Pages 1540-1559

  Bonavita, Massimo ^a   Isaksen, Lars ^a   Hólm, Elías ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flow dependent background errors; Variational data assimilation

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; BACKGROUND ERRORS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DETERMINISTIC ANALYSIS; DETERMINISTIC FORECASTS; SAMPLE STATISTICS; SAMPLE VARIANCE; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; METEOROLOGY;

ERROR STATISTICS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84866162635     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1899     Document Type: Article

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