Incremental inference of boundary forcing for a three-dimensional tidal model: Tides in the Taiwan Strait

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 337-351

  Jan, Sen ^a,e   Wang, Yu Huai ^a,b   Wang, Dong Ping ^c   Chao, Shenn Yu ^d  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING   (Taiwan)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adjoint; Four dimensional variational assimilation; Taiwan Strait; Tides

Indexed keywords

SEMIDIURNAL TIDE; STRAIT; TIDAL CURRENT; TIDAL MODELING; TIDAL RANGE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN STRAIT;

EID: 1242277220     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2003.11.005     Document Type: Article

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