Assimilation of drifter observations for the reconstruction of the Eulerian circulation field

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Molcard, Anne ^a,c   Piterbarg, Leonid I ^b   Griffa, Annalisa ^c   Özgökmen, Tamay M ^a   Mariano, Arthur J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Drifters; Eulerian velocity; Lagrangian assimilation; Lagrangian velocity; Numerical model

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; DRIFTER; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 0142092299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jc001240     Document Type: Article

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