Articles | Volume 14, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2343-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2343-2017
Reviews and syntheses
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08 May 2017
Reviews and syntheses |  | 08 May 2017

Reviews and syntheses: Flying the satellite into your model: on the role of observation operators in constraining models of the Earth system and the carbon cycle

Thomas Kaminski and Pierre-Philippe Mathieu

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This paper provides the formalism and examples of how observation operators can be used, in combination with data assimilation or retrieval techniques, to better ingest satellite products in a manner consistent with the dynamics of the Earth system expressed by models.
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