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Abbas M.M., Michelsen H.A., Gunson M.R., Abrams M.C., Newchurch M.J., Salawitch R.J., Chang A.Y., Goldman A., Irion F.W., Manney G.L., Moyer E.J., Nagaraju R., Rinsland C.P., Stiller G.P., Zander R. Seasonal variations of water vapour in the lower stratosphere inferred from ATMOS/ATLAS-3 measurements of H2O and CH4 Geophys. Res. Lett. 23 pp.2401-2404 (1996)
Alves O., Robert C. Tropical Pacific Ocean model error covariances from Monte Carlo simulations Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 131 pp.3643-3658 (2005) Ensemble Kalman filter
Anderson J.L. Exploring the need for localization in ensemble data assimilation using a hierarchical ensemble filter Physica D 230 pp.99-111 (2007)
Andersson E., Haseler J., Unden P., Courtier P., Kelly G., Vasiljevic D., Brankovic C., Cardinali C., Gaffard C., Hollingsworth A, Jakob C., Janssen P., Klinker E., Lanzinger A., Miller M., Rabier F., Simmons A., Strauss B., Theoaut J-N., Viterbo P. The ECMWF implementation of three-dimensional variational assimilation (3D-Var). Part III: experimental results Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 124 pp.1831-1860 (1998)
Andersson E., Fisher M., Munro R., McNally A. Diagnosis of background errors for radiances and other observable quantities in a variational data assimilation system, and the explanation of a case of poor convergence Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 126 pp.1455-1472 (2000) Randomization method
(Do not have this paper)
Andersson E., Jarvinen H. Variational quality control Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 125 pp. 697-722 (1999) Non-Gaussian
Argaud J.-P., Bouriquet B., Hunt J. Data assimlation from operational and industrial applications to complex systems Global System Dynamics (2008/9?) ECMI 2008 conference
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Baker W.E., Bloom S.C., Woollen J.S., Nestler M.S., Brin E., Schlatter T.W., Branstator G.W. Experiments with a three-dimensional statistical objective analysis scheme using FGGE data Mon. Wea. Rev. 115 pp.272-296 (1987)
Baldwin M.P., Gray L.J., Dunkerton T.J., Hamilton K., Haynes P.H., Randel W.J., Holton J.R., Alexander M.J., Hirota I., Horinouchi T., Jones D.B.A., Kinnersley J.S., Marquardt C., Sato K., Takahashi M. The quasi-biennial oscillation Rev. Geophys. 39 pp.179-229 (2001)
Balgovind R., Dalcher A., Ghil M., Kalnay E. A stochastic model for the spatial structure of forecast error statistics Mon. Wea. Rev. 111 pp.701-722 (1983) Rossby radius
Bannister R.N. Can wavelets improve the representation of forecast error covariances in variational data assimilation? Mon. Wea. Rev. 135 pp.387-408 (2007)
Bannister R.N. A review of forecast error covariance statistics in atmospheric variational data assimilation. I: Characteristics and measurements of forecast error covariances Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 134 pp. 1951-1970 (2008) Background error statistics, balance, calibration, multivariate, separability
Bannister R.N. A review of forecast error covariance statistics in atmospheric variational data assimilation. II: Modelling the forecast error covariance stastics Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 134 pp. 1971-1996 (2008) Balance, control variable transforms, flow dependency, multivariate
Bannister R.N. Issues in the assimlation of sources of a trace gas by inverse modelling Comput Fluids doi:10.1016/j.compfluid.2010.11.017 Inverse modelling, cost function, B-matrix
Bannister R.N., Katz D., Cullen M.J.P., Lawless A.S., Nichols N.K. Modelling of forecast errors in geophysical fluid flows Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids 56 pp. 1147-1153 (2008)
Bannister R.N., O'Neill A., Gregory A.R., Nissen K.M. The role of the south-east Asian monsoon and other seasonal features in creating the 'tape-recorder' signal in the Unified Model Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 130 pp.1531-1554 (2004) General circulation model, Stratosphere-tropopsphere exchange, Stratospheric water vapour, Tropical tropopause
Barker D. M., Huang W., Guo Y.-R., Bourgeois A.J., Xiao Q.N. A three-dimensional variational data assimilation system for MM5: implementation and initial results Mon. Wea. Rev. 132 pp.897-914 (2004)
Barker D.M. Southern high-latitude ensemble data assimilation in the Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System Mon. Wea. Rev. 133 pp.3431-3449 (2005)
Barker D.M., Lorenc A.C. The use of synoptically-dependent background error structures in 3dVar. Var. Scientific Documentation Paper 26 pp.1-11 (2005 (and 1999)) Errors of the day
Barkmeijer J.M., van Gijzen, Bouttier F. Singular vectors and estimates of the analysis error covariance metric Q. J. Royal. Met. Soc. 124 pp.1695-1713 (1998)
Referenced by Fisher and Andersson, 2001
Barkmeijer J., Buizza R., Palmer T.N. 3d-Var Hessian singular vectors and their potential use in the ECMWF ensemble prediction system Q.J.R. Meteor. Soc. 125 pp.2333-2351 (1999)
Referenced by Fisher and Andersson, 2001
Bartello P., Mitchell H.L. A continuous three-dimensional model of short-range forecast error covariances Tellus 44A pp.217-235 (1992)
Bartello P. Geostrophic adjustment and inverse cascades in rotating stratified turbulence J. Atmos. Sci. 52 pp.4410-4428 (1995)
Barwell B.R., Bromley R.A. The adjustment of numerical weather prediction models to local perturbations Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 114 pp. 665-689 (1988)
Bates J.J., Jackson D.L. Trends in upper tropospheric humidity Geophys. Res. Lett. 28 pp.1695-1698 (2001)
Beck A., Ehrendorfer M. Singular vector-based covariance propagation in a quasigeostrophic assimilation system Mon. Wea. Rev. 133 pp.1295-1310 (2005) Reduced rank Kalman filter
Benedetti A., Stephens G.L., Tomislava V. Variational assimilation is radar reflectivities in a cirrus model. I: Model description and adjoint sensitivity studies Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 129 pp.277-300 (2003) Adjoint sensitivity studies, Cirrus microphysics model, Radar data assimilation
Benedetti A., Stephens G.L., Tomislava V. Variational assimilation is radar reflectivities in a cirrus model. II: Optimal initialization and model bias estimation. Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 129 pp.301-319 (2003) Cirrus cloud modelling, Radar data assimilation, Variational retrievals
Model error
Bengtsson L., Hagemann S., Hodges K.I. Can climate trends be calculated from reanalysis data? J. GeoPhys. Res. 109 D11111 pp.1-8 (2004)
Benjamin S.G., Brewster K.A., Brummer R., Jewett B.F., Schlatter T.W., Smith T., Stamus P.A. An isentropic three-hourly data assimilation system using ACARS observations Mon. Wea. Rev. 119 pp.888-906 (1991) Isentropic co-ordinates
Berre L. Estimation of synoptic and mesoscale forecast error covariances in a limited area model Mon. Wea. Rev. 128 pp.644-667 (2000) Diminishing geostrophic balance
Berre L., Stefanescu S.E., Pereira M.B. The representation of the analysis effect in three error simulation techniques Tellus 58A pp.196-209 (2006) NMC, Lagged NMC, Ensemble
Berrisford P., Brugge R., Li D., Steenman-Clark L. Diagnosis of the ECMWF re-analysis dataset by the centre for global atmospheric modelling pp.13 (1998)
Berrisford P. Isentropic potential vorticity inversions on the hemisphere pp.21 (2002) PV conservation, PV inversion, Invertibility
Berrisford P. A case study of cyclogenesis in an isentropic PV model Submitted pp. (2007)
Bishop C.H., Etherton B.J., Majumdar S.J. Adaptive sampling with the ensemble transform Kalman filter. Part I: theoretical aspects Mon. Wea. Rev. 129 pp.420-436 (2001)
Bishop C.H., Hodyss D. Flow-adaptive moderation of spurious ensemble correlations and its use in ensemble-based data assimilation Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc. 133 pp. 2029-2044 (2007) Covariance localization, local ensemble Kalman filter, smoother, SENCORP
Bishop C.H., Hodyss D. Ensemble covariances adaptively localized with ECO-RAP, Part 1: tests on simple error models Tellus 61A pp. 84-96 (2009) Adaptive localization
Bishop C.H., Hodyss D. Ensemble covariances adaptively localized with ECO-RAP, 2: a strategy for the atmosphere Tellus 61A pp. 97-111 (2009) Adaptive localization
Bloom S.C., Takacs L.L., da Silva A.M., Ledvina D. Data assimilation using incremantal analysis updates Mon. Wea. Rev. 124 pp.1256-1271 (1996) IAU
(Do not have this paper)
Bocquet M. Reconstruction of an atmospheric tracer source using the principle of maximum entropy. I: theory Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc. 131 pp.2191-2208 (2005) Sources and sinks
Adjoint equations
Bonavita M., Raynaud L., Isaksen L. Estimating background-error variances with ECMWF ensemble of data assimilations systems: some effects of ensemble size and day-to-day variability Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 137, pp. 423-434 (2011) ensemble of data assimilations, Sampling noise, Ensemble effective resolution
Bourke W. An efficient, one level, primitive equation spectral model Mon. Wea. Rev. 100 pp.683-691 (1972) Spherical harmonics, Associated Legendre polynomials
First prinicples
Bouttier F. Application of Kalman filtering to numerical weather prediction Proceedings of the 1996 ECMWF seminar on data assimilation pp.61-90 (1996)
Mentions weak justification for NMC method
Bouttier F. The AROME mesoscale project Proceedings of the 2003 ECMWF seminar on Recent developments in data assimilation for atmosphere and ocean pp.433-448 (2003)
Bowler N.E., Arribas A., Mylne K.R., Robertson K.B., Beare S.E. The MOGREPS short-range ensemble prediction system Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 134 pp.703-722 (2008) ETKF
Brewer A.W. Evidence for a world circulation provided by the measurements of helium and water vapour distributions in the stratosphere Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 75 pp.351-363 (1949)
Brooks M. Can you believe the weather? New Scientist pp.32-35 (2007) Performance statistics
Brousseau P., Berre L., Bouttier F., Desroziers G. Background error covariances for a convective-scale data assimilation system: AROME-France 3D-Var Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 137, pp. 409-422 (2011) Perturbed observations
Budd C.J., Williams J.F. Moving mesh generation using the parabolic Monge-Ampere equation 30 pp. (2008)
Buehner M. Ensemble derived stationary and flow dependent background error covariances: Evaluation in a quasi-operational NWP setting Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 131 pp.1013-1043 (2005) NMC, Monte Carlo
Buehner M., Gauthier P., Liu Z. Evaluation of new estimates of background and observation error covariances for variational assimilation Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 131 pp.3373-3384 (2005) NMC
Buehner M., Charron M. Spectral and spatial localization of background-error correlations for data assimilation Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 133 pp.615-630 (2007)
Buehner M. Evaluation of spatial/spectral covariance localization approach for atmospheric data assimilation Wavelet-diagonal, ensemble
Author(s) Title Reference Comments

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Cardinali C. Monitoring the observation impact on the short-range forecast Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 135 pp. 239-250 (2009)
Caron J.-F., Fillion L. An examination of the incremental balance in a global ensemble-based 3D-Var data assimilation system Submitted Mon. Wea. Rev. (Jan. 2010)
Carouge C., Bousquet P., Peylin P., Rayner P.J., Ciais P. What can we learn from European continuous atmospheric CO2 measurements to quantify regional fluxes - Part 1: Potential of the 2001 network Atmos. Chem. Phys. 10 pp. 3107-3117 (2010)
Carouge C., Rayner P.J., Peylin P., Bousquet P., Chevallier F., Ciais P. What can we learn from European continuous atmospheric CO2 measurements to quantify regional fluxes - Part 2: Sensitivity of flux accuracy to inverse setup Atmos. Chem. Phys. 10 pp. 3119-3129 (2010)
Carter A.H. A class of inverse problem in physics Am. J. Phys. 68 pp.698-703 (2000) Inverse problem
Teaching journal
Charlton A.J., O'Neill A.O., Berrisford P., Lahoz W.A. Can the dynamical impact of the stratosphere on the troposphere be described by large-scale adjustment to the stratospheric PV distribution? Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. pp. () Arctic oscillation, PV inversion
Charney J.G., Drazin P.G. Propagation of planetary-scale disturbances from the lower into the upper atmosphere J. Geophys. Res. 66 pp.83-109 (1961)
Longer lengthscales in stratosphere due to forcing
Chen X., Akella S., Navon I.M. A dual-weighted trust-region adaptive POD 4-D Var applied to a finite-volume shallow water equations model on the sphere International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids DOI: 10.1002/fld.2523 (2011) Proper orthogonal decomposition
Cheng H., Jardak M., Alexe M., Sandu A. A hydrid approach to estimating error covariances in variational data assimilation Tellus 62A, pp. 288-297 Replace 4d-var error reduction directions with inverse Hessian. Galerkin projection.
Chevallier F., Breon F.-M., Rayner P.J. Contribution of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory to the estimation of CO2 source and sinks: theoretical study in a variational data assimilation framework J. GeoPhys. Res. 112 pp. 1-11 (2007)
Chevallier F., Feng L., Bosch H., Palmer P.I., Rayner P.J. On the impact of transport model errors for the estimation of CO2 surface fluxes from GOSAT observations 2010?
Chevallier F., Lopez P., Tompkins A.M., Janiskova M., Moreau E. The capability of 4d-Var systems to assimilate cloud-affected satellite infrared radiances Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 130 pp.917-932 (2004) Clouds, Satellite observations
Chown M. Chaotic heavens New Scientist 28 Feb pp.32-35 (2004) Planetary allignment
Christakos G. On the assimilation of uncertain physical knowledge bases: Bayesian and non-Bayesian techniques Adv. in Water Resources 25 pp.1257-1274 (2002) Conditionalization, Chernobyl
Christakos G. Critical conceptualism in environmental modeling and prediction Environ. Sci. Technol. 37 pp.4685-4693 (2003)
Christakos G. Methodological developments in geophysical assimilation modelling Rev. Geophys. 43 pp.10 (2005) Epistemic cognition vs. ontologic assimilation
Clark P. Limited area modelling in CRM mode ECMWF Seminar on Parametrization of Subgrid Physical Processes, 1-4 September (2008)
Cohn S., Da Silva A., Guo J., Sienkiewicz M., Lamich D. Assessing the effects of data selection with the DAO physical-space statistical analysis system Mon. Wea. Rev. 126 pp.2913-2926 (1998) PSAS
Corazza M., Kalnay E., Patil D.J., Yang S.-C., Morss R., Cai M., Szunyogh I., Hunt B.R., Yorke J.A. Use of the breeding technique to estimate the structure of the analysis "errors of the day" Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 10 pp.233-243 (2003)
Errors of the day
Courtier P., Thepaut J.N., Hollingsworth A. A strategy for operational implementation of 4d-Var, using an incremental approach Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 120 pp.1367-1387 (1994)
Courtier P., Rabier F. The use of adjoint equations in numerical weather prediction In Numerical methods in atmosphere and ocean modelling. The Andre Robert memorial volume. Eds. Lin C., Laprise R., Ritchie H. pp.303-322 (1997) Sensitivity
Courtier P., Andersson E., Heckley W., Pailleux J., Vasiljevic D., Hollingsworth A., Fisher M., Rabier F The ECMWF implementation of three-dimensional variational assimilation (3D-Var). Part I: formulation Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 124 pp.1783-1807 (1998) Jc term
Cullen M.J.P., Davies T. A conservative split-explicit integration scheme with fourth-order horizontal advection Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 117 pp. 993-1002 (1991)
Cullen M.J.P., Davies T., Mawson M.H. Unified model documentation paper No. 10: Conservative finite difference schemes for a unified forecast/climate model pp. (1993)
Cullen M.J.P. New mathematical developments in atmosphere and ocean dynamics, and their application to computer simulation Forecasting research scientific paper No. 48 pp.61 (1997) PV control variable
Cullen M.J.P. New mathematical developments in atmosphere and ocean dynamics, and their application to computer simulation pp.84 (2001) PV control variable
Chapter 8, Figures in FRSP No. 48
Cullen M.J.P. Use of potential vorticity as a control variable within a 4d variational data assimilation system ECMWF Tech. Memo (& submitted to Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc.) 358 pp.1-22 (2002) Mass-wind coupling
Zero mode
Cullen M.J.P. Lecture Notes pp.21 (2004) Gravity wave equation
Exeter Univ. lecture notes
Cullen M.J.P. The governing equations and asymptotic approximations to them Chapter 2 of book pp.9-49 (2004) SG 3d equations
Cullen M. Modelling atmospheric flows Acta Numerica pp.67-154 (2007)
Cullen M.J.P. A demonstration of cycled 4D-Var in the presence of model error Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. Model error, Error growth
Three body model
Cullen M.J.P. A demonstration of 4D-Var using a time-distributed background term Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. Background term regularisation
Three body model
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Daley R. The effect of serially correlated observations and model error on atmospheric data assimilation Mon. Wea. Rev. 120 pp.164-177 (1992) Correlated observations
Daley R., Barker E. NAVDAS: formulation and diagnostics Mon. Wea. Rev. 129 pp.869-883 (2001)
Dalu G.A., Baldi M. Mesoscale nonhydrostatic and hydrostatic pressure gradient forces - theory J. Atmos. Sci. 60 pp. 2249-2266 (2003)
Dance S.L. Issues in high resolution limited area data assimilation for quantitative precipitation forecasting Physica D 196 pp.1-27 (2004)
Danielsen E.F. A dehydration mechanism for the stratosphere Geophys. Res. Lett. 9 pp.605-608 (1982) Convective overshooting
Sigma patterns in T profile
Danielsen E.F. In situ evidence of rapid, vertical irreversible transport of lower tropopspheric air into the lower tropical stratosphere by convective cloud currets and by larger-scale upwelling in tropical cyclones J.Geophys.Res. 98 pp.8665-8681 (1993) Convection
Davies T., Cullen M.J.P., Malcolm A.J., Mawson M.H., Staniforth A., White A.A., Wood N. A new dynamical core for the Met Office's global and regional modelling of the atmosphere Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 131 pp.1759-1782 (2005) Climate modelling, Deep atmosphere, Fully compressible, Non-hydrostatic, NWP predictor-corrector Semi-implicit, Semi-Lagrangian
Deckmyn A., Berre L. A wavelet approach to representing background error covariances in a limited area model Mon. Wea. Rev. 133 pp.1279-1294 (2005) Hybrid approach
Dee D.P., Da Silva A.M. The choice of variable for atmospheric moisture analysis Mon. Wea. Rev. 131 pp.155-171 (2003) Pseudo relative humidity
Dee D.P., Todling R. Data assimilation in the presence of forecast bias: the GEOS moisture anaysis Mon. Wea. Rev. 128 pp.3268-3282 (2000)
Dee D.P. An adaptive scheme for cycling background error variances during data assimilation ECMWF/GEWEX workshop on humidity analysis pp.15 (July 2002) Error propagation
de Pondeca M.S.F.V., Purser R.J., Parrish D.F., Derber J.C. Comparison of strategies for the specification of anisotropies in the covariances of a three-dimensional atmospheric data assimilation ? ? pp.8 pp. (?)
Derber J., Rosati A. A global oceanic data assimilation system J. Phys. Oceanogr. 19 pp. 1333-1347 (1989) Diffusion operators
Derber J., Bouttier F. A reformulation of the background error covariance in the ECMWF global data assimilation system Tellus 51A pp.195-221 (1999) Var, balance and unbalance
Deshler T., Hervig M.E., Hofmann D.J., Rosen J.M., Liley J.B. Thirty years of in situ stratospheric aerosol sise distribution measurements from Laramie, Wyoming (41N), using balloon measurements J. GeoPhys. Res. 108, D5 pp.4-1 - 4-13 (2003) Volcanic
Desroziers G. A coordinate change for data assimilation in spherical geometry of frontal structures Mon. Wea. Rev. 125 pp.3030-3038 (1997) Semigeostrophic theory, Geostrophic cocordinate transform
Description of B
Desroziers G., Berre L., Chapnik B., Poli P. Diagnosis of observation, background and analysis-error statistics in observation space Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 131 pp. 3385-3396 (2005) Estimation theory, optimality criterion, parameter estimation
Desroziers G., Lafore J.P. A coordinate transformation for objective frontal analysis Mon. Wea. Rev. 121 pp.1531-1553 (1993) Semigeostrophic theory, Geostrophic cocordinate transform
Description of B
Dethof A., O'Neill A., Slingo J.M., Smit H.G.J. A mechanism for moistening the lower stratosphere involving the Asian summer monsoon Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 125 pp.1079-1106 (1999) Water vapour
Dethof A., O'Neill A., Slingo J.M., Berrisford P. Quantification of isentropic water vapour transport into the lower stratosphere Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 126 pp.1771-1788 (2000) Water vapour
Dethof A., Holm E.V. Ozone assimilation in the ERA-40 reanalysis project Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc. 130 pp.2851-2872 (2004)
Ozone background error covariances
Dixon M.A.G., Thorpe A.J., Browning K.A. Layer-wise attribution of vertical motion and the influence of potential-vorticity anomalies on synoptic development Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 129 pp.1761-1778 (2003) Cyclone classification, Cyclogenesis, FASTEX
Dixon M.A.G. Description of the latent heat nudging scheme Working Doc. 10 pp.6 (2004) Mesoscale data assimilation
Dixon M., Li Z., Lean H., Robers N., Ballard S. Impact of data assimilation on forecasting convection over the United Kingdom using a high-resolution version of the Met Office Unified Model Mon. Wea. Rev. 137 pp. 1562-1584 (2009) Latent heat nudging, cloud nudging, VAR
Dubal M.R. Use of a geostrophic coordinate transform in 3d-var pp.10 (2001) Semigeostrophic theory, Geostrophic cocordinate transform
Read with Desroziers
Author(s) Title Reference Comments

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Ehrendorfer M., Tribbia J.J. Optimal prediction of forecast error covariances through singular vectors J. Atmos. Sci. 54 pp.286-313 (1997)
Ehrendorfer M., Bouttier F. An explicit low resolution extended Kalman filter: Implementation and preliminary eperimentation. ECMWF Tech. Memo. 259 pp.1-x (1998)
Ehrendorfer M. A review of issues in ensemble-based Kalman filtering Meteorol. Z. 16, pp. 795-818 (2007)
Elbern H., Schmidt H. Ozone episode by four-dimensional variational chemistry data assimilation J. GeoPhys. Res. 106 pp.3569-3590 (2001) Ozone, Chemical data assimilation
Eluszkiewicz J., Hemler R.S., Mahlman J.D., Bruhwiler L., Takacs L.L. Sensitivity of age-of-air calculations to the choice of advection scheme J. Atmos. Sci. 57 pp.3185-3201 (2000) Age of air, Advection schemes
Eurerian, Lagrangian, Semi-Lagrangian comparisons
Errico R.M., Bauer P., Mahfouf J.-F. Issues regarding the assimilation of cloud and precipitation data J. Atmos. Sci. 64 pp.3785-3798 (2007)
Errico R.M., Ohring G., Bauer P., Ferrier B., Mahfouf J.-F., Turk J., Weng F. Assimilation of satellite cloud and precipitation observations in numerical weather prediction models: Introduction to the JAS special collection J. Atmos. Sci. 64 pp.3737-3741 (2007)
Evensen G. The Ensemble Kalman Filter: Theoretical Formulation and Practical Implementation Ocean Dynamics 53 pp.343-367 (2003)
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OSSEs performed, changing background errors
Eyring V., Butchart N., Waugh D.W., Akiyoshi H., Austin J., Bekki S., Bodeker G.E., Boville B.A., Bruhl C., Chipperfield M.P., Cordero E., Dameris M., Deushi M., Fioletov V.E., Frith SM., Garcia R.R., Gettelman A., Giorgetta M.A., Grewe V., Jourdain L., Kinnison D.E., Mancini E., Manzini E., Marchand M., Marsh D.R., Nagashima T., Newman P.A., Nielsen J.E., Pawson S., Pitari G., Plummer D.A., Rozanov E., Schraner M., Shepherd T.G., Shibata K., Stolarski R.S., Struthers H., Tian W., Yoshiki M. Assessment of temperature, trace species, and ozone in chemistry-climate model simulations of the recent past J. GeoPhys. Res. - Atmos. 111 Art No. D22308 (2006)
Towards chemistry-climate modelling, many different climate models are compared
Author(s) Title Reference Comments

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Feng L., Palmer P.I., Bosch H., Dance S. Estimating surface CO2 fluxes from space-borne CO2 dry air mole fraction observations using an ensemble Kalman filter Atmos. Chem. Phys. 9 pp. 2619-2633 (2009)
Fillion L. Diabatic balanced increments Pers. Comm. pp.1-3 (2007)
Complementary to ECMWF flow-dependent workshop report
Fillion L., Tanguay M., Lapalme E., Denis B., Desgagne M., Lee V., Ek N., Liu Z, Lajoie M., Caron J.-F., Page C. The Canadian regional data assimilation and forecasting system Submitted Weather and Forecasting (Dec. 2009)
Fischer C., Montmerle T., Berre L., Auger L., Stefanescu S.E. An overview of the variational assimilation in the ALADIN/France numerical weather prediction system Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 131 pp.3477-3492 (2005) Mesoscale
Fisher M. and Coutier P. Estimating the covariance matrices of analysis and forecast error in variational data assimilation ECMWF Technical Memo No. 220 pp.28 pp (1995) Lanczos
Fisher M. Development of a simplified Kalman filter ECMWF Technical Memo No. 260 pp.16 pp (1998)
Fisher M. Minimization algorithms for variational data assimilation. Recent developments in numerical methods for atmospheric modelling ECMWF (1998) Conjugate gradient algorithm
(Do not have this paper)
Fisher M., Andersson E. Developments in 4d-Var and Kalman filtering ECMWF Research Report No. 347 pp.36 (2001) Wavelets, 3d-fgat
Fletcher S.J., Zupanski M. A data assimilation method for log-normally distributed observational errors Q.J.R. Meteor. Soc. 132 pp.2505-2519 (2006)
Ford R., McIntyre M.E., Norton W.A. Balance and the slow manifold: some explicit results J. Atmos. Sci. 57 pp.1236-1254 (2000) Quasi slow manifold, Lighthill radiation, Balance
Fowler A.M., Bannister R.N., Eyre J. Characterising the background errors for the boundary-layer capping inversion Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal 59, pp. 17-24 Amplitude and phase errors
Fournier A., Dixon M., Bannister R.N., Ballard S.P. Wavelet representation of localized multiscale flow structures in high-resolution variational data assimilation Met Office contract report (2008)
Freeden W., Windheiser Spherical wavelet transform and its discretization Adv. Comput. Math. 5 pp.51-94 (1996) Wavelets
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Gaffen D.J., Santer B.D., Boyle J.S., Christy J.R., Graham N.E., Ross R.J. Multidecadal changes in the vertical temperature structure of the tropical tropopause Science 287 pp.1242-1245 (2000) Temperature trends
Garcia-Alvarez D. A comparison of a few numerical schemes for the integration of stochastic differential equations in the Stratonovich interpretation
Ito and Stratonovich interpretations
Gaspari G., Cohn S.E. Construction of correlation functions in two and three dimensions D.A.O. Note 96-03R1 pp.1-53 (1996)
Published in 199 in Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc.
Gaspari G., Cohn S.E. Construction of correlation functions in two and three dimensions Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 125 pp.723-757 (1999) Convolution, compactly supported
Gauthier P., Charette C., Fillion L., Koclas P., Laroche S. Implementation of a 3d variational data assimilation system at the Canadian Meteorological Centre. Part I: The global analysis. Atmosphere Ocean 37 pp. 103-156 (1999)
Geer A.J., Peubey C., Bannister R.N., Brugge R., Jackson D.R., Lahoz W.A., Migliorini S., O'Neill A.O., Swinbank R. Assimilation of stratospheric ozone from MIPAS into a global general-circulation model: the September 2002 vortex split Q.J.R.Meteor.Soc. 132 pp.231-257 (2006) Model bias, Ozone photochemistry parametrizations, Stratospheric transport
Anomalous vertical transport
Gettelman A., Forster P.M. de F. A climatology of the tropical tropopause layer J. Meterol. Soc. Jpn. 80 pp.911-924 (2002) Stratosphere troposphere exchange
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