Evaluation of conditional non-linear optimal perturbation obtained by an ensemble-based approach using the Lorenz-63 model

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Yin, Xudong ^a,b   Wang, Bin ^a,c   Liu, Juanjuan ^a   Tan, Xiaowei ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

CNOP P.; Parameter estimation; Parameter sensitivity.

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84904552178     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v66.22773     Document Type: Article

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