Assimilation of Satellite Altimetry into a Western North Pacific Operational Model

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 767-786

  Kamachi, Masafumi ^a   Kuragano, Tsurane ^a   Yoshioka, Noriya ^b   Zhu, Jiang ^c   Uboldi, Francesco ^d  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^d Magritte SNC   (Italy)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Kuroshio; Predictability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038288533     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03403501     Document Type: Article

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