Representativity error for temperature and humidity using the Met Office high-resolution model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 140, Issue 681, 2014, Pages 1189-1197

  Waller, J A ^a   Dance, S L ^a   Lawless, A S ^a   Nichols, N K ^a   Eyre, J R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Correlated observation error; Data assimilation; Forward model error

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; DATA PROCESSING;

CORRELATED OBSERVATIONS; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORWARD MODELING; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; OBSERVATION OPERATOR; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITIES; VARIABLE RESOLUTION MODELING;

INSTRUMENT ERRORS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORWARD MODELING; HUMIDITY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84902296169     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2207     Document Type: Article

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