Resolution of sharp fronts in the presence of model error in variational data assimilation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 672, 2013, Pages 742-757

  Freitag, M A ^a   Nichols, N K ^b   Budda, C J ^a  

^a The University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Linear advection equation; Model error; Tikhonov regularization; TV regularization

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ERRORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ADVECTION EQUATIONS; DATA ASSIMILATION; MODEL ERRORS; TIKHONOV REGULARIZATION; TV REGULARIZATIONS;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; EQUATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INVERSE PROBLEM; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 84897958535     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2002     Document Type: Article

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