The Ensemble Kalman Filter: Theoretical formulation and practical implementation

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 343-367

  Evensen, Geir ^a  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensemble Kalman Filter

Indexed keywords

COST-EFFECTIVE APPROACH; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; NONLINEAR MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION; OPTIMAL INTERPOLATION; THEORETICAL FORMULATION; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

DATA PROCESSING; OPTIMIZATION;

KALMAN FILTERS;

EID: 84884550570     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-003-0036-9     Document Type: Article

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