Modelling and predicting the motion of ocean eddies from local current data

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 13, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 292-305

  White, Andrew J ^a   McDonald, N Robb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eddies; Gulf of Mexico; Least squares; Time series

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EDDY-INDUCED CURRENTS; OCEAN EDDY MOTION; OFFSHORE OIL INDUSTRY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PREDICTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646075439     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2006.02.007     Document Type: Article

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