Multivariate-spline and scale-specific solution for variational analyses

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 379-386

  Chin, Toshio M ^a,b   Özgökmen, Tamay M ^b   Mariano, Arthur J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NYQUIST DIAGRAMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTATIONAL GRID; MULTIVARIATE-SPLINE; SCALE-SPECIFIC SOLUTION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA PROCESSING; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 1842731299     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(2004)021<0379:MASSFV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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