A hybrid nudging-ensemble Kalman filter approach to data assimilation in WRF/DART

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 669, 2012, Pages 2066-2078

  Lei, Lili ^a   Stauffer, David R ^a   Deng, Aijun ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric transport and dispersion; EnKF; Hybrid data assimilation; Insertion noise; Nudging

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DIGITAL STORAGE; EXPERIMENTS; KALMAN FILTERS; WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENKF; INSERTION NOISE; NUDGING;

DATA PROCESSING;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

NEPTUNIA;

EID: 85027950787     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1939     Document Type: Article

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