Information contained in innovations
Innovation vector:
- short-term forecast (background) contains information gained from past observations
- Comparison of observations against the background which is our a priori knowledge of the state of the atmosphere
- Offers a common ground against which it is possible to compare all observations
Monitoring of observations
- innovations are represented by observation types and averaged over a large number of data, binned according to different categories
- Allows to detect problems with observations
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