Effects of sequential or simultaneous assimilation of observations and localizationmethods on the performance of the ensemble Kalman filter

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 672, 2013, Pages 758-770

  Holland, Brian ^a   Wang, Xuguang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance; Covariance localization; Serial assimilation

Indexed keywords

BALANCING; COVARIANCE MATRIX; DIGITAL FILTERS; ERRORS; FORECASTING;

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; CHARACTERISTIC SHAPES; COVARIANCE LOCALIZATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; FORECAST AND ANALYSIS; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; SERIAL ASSIMILATION;

KALMAN FILTERS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER;

EID: 84888397950     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2006     Document Type: Article

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