The impact of inhomogenous background errors on a global wave data assimilation system

Greenslade, Diana J M; Young, Ian

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The impact of inhomogenous background errors on a global wave data assimilation system

Date

2005

Authors

Greenslade, Diana J M

Young, Ian

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract

One of the main limitations in current wave data assimilation systems is the lack of an accurate representation of the structure of the background errors. In this work, models for the observational error variance, background error variance and background