Technical Note: Comparison of ensemble Kalman filter and variational approaches for CO2 data assimilation

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 11643-11660

  Chatterjee, A ^a,b,c   Michalak, A M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; DATA ASSIMILATION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; INVERSE PROBLEM; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS;

EID: 84890043397     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-11643-2013     Document Type: Article

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