Towards ensemble data assimilation for the Environment Canada Regional Ice Prediction System

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 142, Issue 695, 2016, Pages 1090-1099

  Shlyaeva, Anna ^a   Buehner, Mark ^a   Caya, Alain ^a   Lemieux, Jean François ^a   Smith, Gregory C ^a   Roy, François ^a   Dupont, Frédéric ^a   Carrieres, Tom ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

CICE; EnDA; EnVar; Sea ice data assimilation

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; SEA ICE; THERMODYNAMICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

CICE; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DETERMINISTIC DATA; ENDA; ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION; ENVAR; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES;

ICE;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA ICE;

CANADA;

EID: 84975764360     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2712     Document Type: Article

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