GSI 3Dvar-based ensemble-variational hybrid data assimilation for NCEP global forecast system: Single-resolution experiments

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4098-4117

  Wang, Xuguang ^a   Parrish, David ^b   Kleist, Daryl ^b   Whitaker, Jeffrey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEM MODEL; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; STATISTICAL INTERPOLATION; TEMPERATURE FORECASTS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION;

HYBRID SYSTEMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EXPERIMENTS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; INTERPOLATION; KALMAN FILTER; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84888405318     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00141.1     Document Type: Article

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