Reducing correlation sampling error in ensemble Kalman filter data assimilation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 913-925

  Anderson, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Data assimilation; Ensembles; Kalman filters; Mathematical and statistical techniques; Models and modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDPASS FILTERS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GEOPHYSICS; KALMAN FILTERS; SAMPLING;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; BAYESIAN METHODS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLES; GEOPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS; LOCALIZATION FUNCTIONS; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

ERRORS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84961391800     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-15-0052.1     Document Type: Article

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