The dynamics of error growth and predictability in a model of the Gulf Stream. Part I: Singular vector analysis

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 158-176

  Moore, Andrew M ^a   Mariano, Arthur J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032743237     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1999)029<0158:TDOEGA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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