Examination of situation-dependent background error covariances at the convective scale in the context of the ensemble kalman filter

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3369-3387

  Chung, Kao Shen ^a   Chang, Weiguang ^b   Fillion, Luc ^a   Tanguay, Monique ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensembles; Kalman filters

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND ERRORS; BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLES; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SYSTEMATIC EXPLORATION; THERMODYNAMIC VARIABLES;

FORECASTING;

KALMAN FILTERS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84884963972     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00353.1     Document Type: Article

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