Tests of different flavours of EnKF on a simple model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 675, 2013, Pages 1505-1519

  Bowler, Neill E ^a   Flowerdew, Jonathan ^a   Pring, Stephen R ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Deterministic filter; Ensemble forecasting; Localization; Non Gaussianity; NWP

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; DETERMINISTIC FILTER; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; LOCALIZATION; NONGAUSSIANITY; NWP;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; DATA PROCESSING; KALMAN FILTERS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RANGE FINDING;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; STOCHASTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84884208246     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2055     Document Type: Article

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