Maintaining atmospheric mass and water balance in reanalyses

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 142, Issue 697, 2016, Pages 1565-1573

  Takacs, Lawrence L ^a,b   Suárez, Max J ^b,c   Todling, Ricardo ^b  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Incremental analysis update; Mass conservation; Renalysis

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY;

CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; DATA ASSIMILATION; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; INCREMENTAL ANALYSIS; MASS CONSERVATION; RENALYSIS; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; EOS; EVAPORATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WATER BUDGET;

EID: 84981765179     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2763     Document Type: Article

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