Seasonal circulation fields in the northern Gulf of Mexico calculated by assimilating current meter, shipboard ADCP, and drifter data simultaneously with the shallow water equations

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 157-183

  Smith, S R ^a   Jacobs, G A ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barotropic motion; Continental shelves; Eulerian current measurement; Gulf of Mexico; Lagrangian current measurement; Least squares method

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; BAROTROPIC MOTION; COASTAL CURRENT; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CURRENT VELOCITY; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 11144352160     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2004.09.010     Document Type: Article

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