Monitoring the Kuroshio Extension with dynamically constrained synthesis of the acoustic tomography, satellite altimeter and in situ data

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 751-763

  Lebedev, Konstantin V ^a,c   Yaremchuk, Max ^a,c   Mitsudera, Humio ^a,b   Nakano, Iwao ^b   Yuan, Gang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

^c SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Acoustic tomography; Eddy interaction; Energy budget; Kuroshio extension; Mesoscale oceanic variability; Monitoring; Variational data assimilation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ASSIMILATION; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEANIC CURRENT; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY;

KUROSHIO EXTENSION; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0742322821     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOCE.0000009568.06949.c5     Document Type: Article

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