The value added by atmospheric measurements to the analyses and forecasts produced by data assimilation systems (DAS) is closely determined by the representation of the statistical properties of the errors in the prior forecast estimate (background) and observations. Four-dimensional variational data assimilation (4D-Var) aims to provide an opti...
Creator:
Daescu, Dacian N. (Portland State University)
Created:
2016-06-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.