On the diffusion equation and its application to isotropic and anisotropic correlation modelling in variational assimilation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 670, 2013, Pages 242-260

  Weaver, A T ^a   Mirouze, I ^a  

^a CERFACS   (France)

Author keywords

Background error; Correlation functions; Covariance modelling; Diffusion tensor; Ensemble estimation; Ocean data assimilation

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND ERRORS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; COVARIANCE MODELLING; DIFFUSION TENSOR; OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION;

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LAPLACE EQUATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

TENSORS;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING;

EID: 84873309303     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1955     Document Type: Article

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