A new implementation of the adaptive mesh transform in the Met Office 3D-Var System

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 667, 2012, Pages 1560-1570

  Piccolo, Chiara ^a   Cullen, Mike ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh; Data assimilation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MESHES; BACKGROUND ERRORS; BOUNDARY LAYER STRUCTURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECAST ERRORS; LOWER BOUNDARY; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; VERTICAL CORRELATION;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; RADIOSONDES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GPS; HUMIDITY; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEVIRI; STRATOCUMULUS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84866178036     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1880     Document Type: Article

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