Estimating a mean ocean state from hydrography and sea-surface height data with a nonlinear inverse section model: Twin experiments with a synthetic dataset

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 2096-2112

  Losch, Martin ^a   Redler, René ^a   Schröter, Jens ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR DETECTION;

HYDROGRAPHY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

GEOID; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; HYDROGRAPHY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036634599     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<2096:EAMOSF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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