A variational approach for the reconstruction of regional scale Eulerian velocity fields from Lagrangian data

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-24

  Taillandier, Vincent ^a   Griffa, Annalisa ^a,b   Molcard, Anne ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SAMPLING; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

COST FUNCTION; EULERIAN VELOCITY FIELD; NUMERICAL REGIONAL CIRCULATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CURRENT VELOCITY; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS;

EID: 32544455837     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2005.09.002     Document Type: Article

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