Directed drifter launch strategies for Lagrangian data assimilation using hyperbolic trajectories

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 268-289

  Molcard, Anne ^a,b   Poje, Andrew C ^c   Özgökmen, Tamay M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF WATER; GEOPHYSICS; INTERPOLATION; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

GEOPHYSICAL FLOWS; LAGRANGIAN DATA ASSIMILATION; MIAMI ISOPYCNIC COORDINATE OCEAN MODEL (MICOM); OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (OGCMS);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA BUOY; DRIFTER;

EID: 30044451203     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2005.06.004     Document Type: Article

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