New mean dynamic topography of the Mediterranean calculated from assimilation system diagnostics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Dobricic, Srdjan ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SATELLITES; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ALTIMETER SATELLITE; ASSIMILATION SYSTEM DIAGNOSTICS; DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT MEASUREMENTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 23844510515     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022518     Document Type: Article

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