Comparing two approaches for assessing observation impact

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1484-1505

  Todling, Ricardo ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT OPERATORS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION THEORY; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OBSERVATION IMPACTS; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; STATE SPACE APPROACH;

NASA;

FORECASTING;

CORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; EOS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84878192957     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00100.1     Document Type: Article

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