Balance characteristics of multivariate background error covariances and their impact on analyses and forecasts in tropical and Arctic regions

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 121, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 79-98

  Chen, Yaodeng ^a   Rizvi, Syed R H ^b   Huang, Xiang Yu ^b   Min, Jinzhong ^a   Zhang, Xin ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TROPICAL REGION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84879168659     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-013-0251-y     Document Type: Article

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