Error budget of inverse box models: The North Atlantic

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1641-1655

  Ganachaud, Alaxandre ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SILICA;

LINEAR INVERSE BOX MODELS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ERROR ANALYSIS; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0141902740     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(2003)020<1641:EBOIBM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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