An ensemble Kalman filter for the time-dependent analysis of the geomagnetic field

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4035-4043

  Fournier, Alexandre ^a   Nerger, Lars ^b   Aubert, Julien ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

data assimilation; geomagnetism; numerical dynamo models

Indexed keywords

CLOSED-LOOP EXPERIMENTS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL DYNAMOS; POLOIDAL MAGNETIC FIELD; SPECTRAL COEFFICIENTS; TIME-DEPENDENT ANALYSIS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; EXPERIMENTS; GEOMAGNETISM; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; KALMAN FILTERS; SPECTROSCOPY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; GEOMAGNETISM; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 84889018712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ggge.20252     Document Type: Article

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