Estimates of analysis and forecast error variances derived from the adjoint of 4D-Var

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3183-3203

  Moore, Andrew M ^a   Arango, Hernan G ^b   Broquet, Gregoire ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensembles; Numerical analysis modeling; Ocean models

Indexed keywords

ADJOINTS; CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEMS; COASTAL OCEAN; COASTAL UPWELLING; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLES; ERROR VARIANCE; FORECAST ERROR VARIANCE; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; IN-SITU; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; MODEL CONTROL; OBSERVATION ERRORS; OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN STATE; REGIONAL OCEAN MODELING SYSTEM; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; VALUE ENGINEERING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CURRENT; UPWELLING; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867978022     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00141.1     Document Type: Article

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