An off-line, numerically efficient initialization scheme in an oceanic general circulation model for El Niño-Southern Oscillation prediction

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Tang, Youmin ^a   Kleeman, Richard ^a   Moore, Andrew M ^b   Vialard, Jérôme ^c   Weaver, Anthony ^d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Lab d'Oceanogr Dynamique/Climatol   (France)

^d Climate Modeling/Global Change Group   (France)

Author keywords

ENSO prediction; Initialization; Ocean model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PREDICTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND FORCING;

EID: 3543035199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JC002159     Document Type: Article

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