Construction of non-diagonal background error covariance matrices for global chemical data assimilation

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 299-316

  Singh, K ^a   Jardak, M ^a,d   Sandu, A ^a   Bowman, K ^b   Lee, M ^b   Jones, D ^c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; NOISE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 84869017216     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-4-299-2011     Document Type: Article

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