Variational Assimilation of Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean and expendable bathythermograph data in the Hamburg Ocean Primitive Equation ocean general circulation model, adjusting the surface fluxes in the tropical ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 106, Issue C8, 2001, Pages 16693-16709

  Bonekamp, Hans ^a,b,c   Van Oldenborgh, Geert Jan ^a   Burgers, Gerrit ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE; SURFACE FLUX; TROPICAL REGION;

(TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034820012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc000136     Document Type: Article

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