A multiscale variational data assimilation scheme: Formulation and illustration

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 143, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3804-3822

  Li, Zhijin ^a   McWilliams, James C ^b   Ide, Kayo ^c   Farrara, John D ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

^d Los Angeles   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Inverse methods; Mesoscale forecasting; Reanalysis data; Variational analysis

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ERRORS; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; INVERSE METHODS; MESOSCALE FORECASTING; REANALYSIS; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS;

COST FUNCTIONS;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84931593744     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00384.1     Document Type: Article

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