4DEnVar: Link with 4D state formulation of variational assimilation and different possible implementations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 140, Issue 684, 2014, Pages 2097-2110

  Desroziers, Gérald ^a   Camino, Jean Thomas ^a   Berre, Loïk ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Ensemble assimilation; Minimization algorithms; Preconditioning; Variational assimilation

Indexed keywords

VALUE ENGINEERING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; ENSEMBLE ASSIMILATION; FOUR DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL; MINIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PRECONDITIONED ALGORITHMS; PRECONDITIONING; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION;

ERRORS;

EID: 84922898722     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2325     Document Type: Article

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