Estimation of surface carbon fluxes with an advanced data assimilation methodology

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Kang, Ji Sun ^a   Kalnay, Eugenia ^a   Miyoshi, Takemasa ^a   Liu, Junjie ^b   Fung, Inez ^c  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERE;

ACCURATE ANALYSIS; ACCURATE ESTIMATION; ATMOSPHERIC CO; DATA ASSIMILATION; EFFICIENT TREATMENT; FORECAST MODEL; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; INFLATION METHOD; METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MODEL ERRORS; MULTIPLICATIVE INFLATIONS; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; PRIORI INFORMATION; RMS ERRORS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SURFACE CARBON; SURFACE FLUX; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL LOCALIZATION; WIND UNCERTAINTIES;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GOSAT; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84871542686     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JD018259     Document Type: Article

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