Ensemble data assimilation for an eddy-resolving ocean model of the Australian region

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 613, 2006, Pages 3301-3311

  Oke, P R ^a   Schiller, A ^a   Griffin, D A ^a   Brassington, G B ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ocean prediction

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR COVARIANCES; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL OCEAN; IN-SITU; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION; OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN PREDICTION; OPTIMAL INTERPOLATION; REANALYSIS; SAMPLING ERRORS; SATELLITE-DERIVED OBSERVATIONS; SEA LEVEL ANOMALY;

DATA PROCESSING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 33847251958     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.95     Document Type: Article

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