An oceanographic three-dimensional variational data assimilation scheme

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 89-105

  Dobricic, Srdjan ^a   Pinardi, Nadia ^b  

^a CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ocean models; Operational oceanography

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; DATA PROCESSING; SEA LEVEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOPOGRAPHY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; OCEAN MODELS; OPERATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; BOUNDARY CONDITION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA QUALITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MATRIX; PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 43949116618     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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