Model space localization is not always better than observation space localization for assimilation of satellite radiances

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 143, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3948-3955

  Lei, Lili ^a,b   Whitaker, Jeffrey S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Kalman filters; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; KALMAN FILTERS; SATELLITES;

BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE BASED DATA ASSIMILATION; GEOPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS; OBSERVATION ERRORS; OBSERVATION SPACE; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; VERTICAL LOCALIZATION;

TRACKING (POSITION);

DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; MODELING; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 84945161919     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00413.1     Document Type: Article

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