Assimilating altimetric data into a South China Sea model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C12, 1999, Pages 29987-30005

  Wu, Chau Ron ^a,c   Shaw, Ping Tung ^a   Chao, Shenn Yu ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; MARGINAL SEA; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 0033573491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900260     Document Type: Article

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