Adjustment of near-equatorial wind stress with four-dimensional variational data assimilation in a model of the pacific ocean

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2070-2083

  Vossepoel, Femke C ^a   Weaver, Anthony T ^b   Vialard, Jérôme ^a   Delecluse, Pascale ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b SUC URA 1875   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYNTHETIC OBSERVATIONS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; TIME EVOLUTION; WIND STRESS ERRORS;

DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOANALYSIS;

WIND STRESS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 4444293702     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<2070:AONWSW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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