Modelling of flow-dependent ensemble-based background-error correlations using a wavelet formulation in 4D-Var at Météo-France

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 692, 2015, Pages 2803-2812

  Berre, Loïk ^a   Varella, Hubert ^a   Desroziers, Gérald ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Ensemble; Error correlations; Flow dependence; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

VALUE ENGINEERING;

CORRELATION FEATURES; ENSEMBLE; ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR CORRELATION; FLOW DEPENDENCE; MODELLING OF FLOWS; VERTICAL CORRELATION; WAVELET;

ERRORS;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW MODELING; WAVELET;

EID: 84946480044     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2565     Document Type: Article

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