Mediterranean Forecasting System: An improved assimilation scheme for sea-level anomaly and its validation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 613, 2006, Pages 3627-3642

  Dobricic, S ^a   Pinardi, N ^a,b   Adani, M ^a   Bonazzi, A ^a   Fratianni, C ^a   Tonani, M ^a  

^a Istituto Nazionale di Geoflsica e Vulcanologia   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Operational oceanography; Physical oceanography

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY OF ANALYSIS; ASSIMILATION SYSTEM DIAGNOSTICS; BAROTROPIC; DATA ASSIMILATION; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; ERROR CORRELATION; FORECAST SYSTEMS; IN-SITU DATA; MEDITERRANEAN FORECASTING SYSTEM; OPERATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY; OPERATIONAL SCHEMES; OPTIMAL INTERPOLATION; PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL ANOMALY; STREAMFUNCTIONS; TIME AND SPACE; TIME-SCALES; VERTICAL MODES;

DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; NANOFLUIDICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 33947121194     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.100     Document Type: Article

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