A weak-constraint 4DEnsembleVar. Part I: formulation and simple model experiments

Javier Amezcua; Michael Goodliff; Peter Jan Van Leeuwen

doi:10.1080/16000870.2016.1271564

A weak-constraint 4DEnsembleVar. Part I: formulation and simple model experiments

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Volume 69 (2017): Issue 1

By: Javier Amezcua, Michael Goodliff and Peter Jan Van Leeuwen

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Submitted on: Jan 9, 2016

Accepted on: Nov 29, 2016

Published on: Jan 1, 2017

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Keywords:

hybrid data assimilation,

ensemble-variational methods,

model error

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