Successive correction of the mean sea surface height by the simultaneous assimilation of drifting buoy and altimetric data

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2381-2397

  Ishikawa, Yoichi ^a   Awaji, Tochiyuki ^a   Akitomo, Kazunori ^a   Qiu, Bo ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETRY; DATA ASSIMILATION; DRIFTING DATA BUOYS; SURFACE HEIGHT;

EID: 0030405799     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1996)026<2381:SCOTMS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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