The impact of sea level data assimilation on the Lamont model prediction of the 1997/98 El Niño

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2837-2840

  Chen, Dake ^a   Cane, Mark A ^a   Zebiak, Stephen E ^a   Kaplan, Alexey ^a  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EL NINO; LAMONT MODEL PREDICTION; SEA LEVEL DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECAST SYSTEMS; MODEL PHYSICS; MODEL PREDICTION; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OCEAN STATE; TIDE GAUGES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; KALMAN FILTERING; TROPICS; WATER WAVES; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND; FORECASTING; NICKEL; TIDE GAGES;

SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FORECASTING METHOD; PREDICTION; SEA LEVEL;

EID: 0032148084     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL52186     Document Type: Article

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