Review of the ensemble Kalman filter for atmospheric data assimilation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 144, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 4489-4532

  Houtekamer, P L ^a   Zhang, Fuqing ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Ensembles; Error analysis; Kalman filters; Numerical analysis modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDPASS FILTERS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; HURRICANES; HYBRID SYSTEMS; STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC DATA; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLES; HIGHER RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; WEATHER PREDICTION;

KALMAN FILTERS;

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84996957373     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-15-0440.1     Document Type: Review

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