A probabilistic approach to adaptive covariance localization for serial ensemble square root filters

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4499-4518

  Zhen, Yicun ^a   Zhang, Fuqing ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE APPROACH; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE SQUARE ROOT FILTER; MATHEMATICAL FORMULAS; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; SQUARE-ROOT FILTERS; VARIATIONAL APPROACHES;

SAMPLING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84916231777     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00390.1     Document Type: Article

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