Empirical localization of observations for serial ensemble Kalman filter data assimilation in an atmospheric general circulation model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1835-1851

  Lei, Lili ^a   Anderson, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; LOCALIZATION ALGORITHM; LOCALIZATION FUNCTIONS; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; VERTICAL LOCALIZATION;

ALGORITHMS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; SIMULATION; SURFACE PRESSURE;

EID: 84899874533     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00288.1     Document Type: Article

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