Salinity assimilation using S(T): Covariance relationships

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 759-771

  Haines, Keith ^a   Blower, J D ^a   Drecourt, J P ^a   Liu, C ^a   Vidard, A ^b   Astin, I ^a   Zhou, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

CLIMATE GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HORIZONTAL SPATIAL COVARIANCE; ORTHOGONAL SALINITY INCREMENT; SALINITY ASSIMILATION;

METEOROLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SALINITY;

EID: 33646236582     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3089.1     Document Type: Article

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