Practical global oceanic state estimation

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 230, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 197-208

  Wunsch, Carl ^a   Heimbach, Patrick ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjoint method; Data assimilation; Method of Lagrange multipliers; Ocean circulation; State estimate

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADJOINT METHOD; DATA ASSIMILATION; METHOD OF LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; STATE ESTIMATES;

STATE ESTIMATION;

EID: 34248645164     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2006.09.040     Document Type: Article

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