Heterogeneous filtering of ensemble-based background-error variances

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 667, 2012, Pages 1589-1598

  Raynaud, Laure ^a   Pannekoucke, Olivier ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Diffusion operator; Ensemble data assimilation; Flow dependency; Sampling noise; Spatial filtering

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION OPERATORS; ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION; FLOW DEPENDENCY; SAMPLING NOISE; SPATIAL FILTERINGS;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; METEOROLOGY;

DIFFUSION;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; NOISE; SMOOTHING; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866165805     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1890     Document Type: Article

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