Intractable and unsolved: Some thoughts on statistical data assimilation with uncertain static parameters

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1991, 2013, Pages

  Rougier, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attractor; Calibration; Dynamical Systems; Filtering; Sensitive Dependence On Initial Conditions; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATTRACTING SET; ATTRACTOR; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; FIELD APPLICATION; INITIAL CONDITIONS; SENSITIVE DEPENDENCE ON INITIAL CONDITION; SMOOTHING; STATIC PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL DATAS;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84876542678     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0297     Document Type: Article

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