Assimilation of sea surface height data into an isopycnic ocean model

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1189-1213

  Forbes, Cristina ^a,c   Brown, Otis ^b  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETRY; CIRCULATION MODELLING; ISOPYCNIC PRIMITIVE EQUATION MODEL;

EID: 0030463641     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1996)026<1189:AOSSHD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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