## Abstract Incremental four‐dimensional variational assimilation (4D‐Var) is an algorithm that approximately solves a nonlinear minimization problem by solving a sequence of linearized (quadratic) minimization problems of the form where **x** is the control vector, **A** is a symmetric positive‐d
Four-dimensional variational data assimilation for mesoscale and storm-scale applications
✍ Scribed by S. K. Park; D. Županski
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 607 KB
- Volume
- 82
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1436-5065
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