A new structure for error covariance matrices and their adaptive estimation in EnKF assimilation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 672, 2013, Pages 795-804

  Wu, Guocan ^a   Zheng, Xiaogu ^a   Wang, Liqun ^b   Zhang, Shupeng ^a   Liang, Xiao ^a   Li, Yong ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive estimation; Data assimilation; Ensemble kalman filter; Error covariance inflation; Second order least squares estimation

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; FORECASTING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

ADAPTIVE ESTIMATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ERROR COVARIANCE INFLATIONS; LEAST SQUARES ESTIMATION;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MATRIX; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84896296625     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2000     Document Type: Article

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