Optimization of an observing system design for the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 625-634

  Baehr, Johanna ^a,c   McInerney, David ^b,d   Keller, Klaus ^b   Marotzke, Jochem ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; MONITORING; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); ARRAY DESIGNS; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; DATA SETS; GLOBAL SOLUTIONS; GRADIENT-BASED OPTIMIZATION; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION (MOC); MONITOR (CO); NORTH ATLANTIC (NA); NUMERICAL MODELLING; OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; ROOT MEAN-SQUARE ERROR (RMSE); SEQUENTIAL OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEM DESIGNS;

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION;

DATA SET; DESIGN; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEURISTICS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 42549131173     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JTECHO535.1     Document Type: Article

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