Objective array design: Application to the tropical Indian Ocean

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 794-807

  Sakov, Pavel ^a   Oke, Peter R ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROL THEORY; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; MILITARY DATA PROCESSING; MONITORING; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SEA LEVEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER LEVELS;

AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); APPLIED (CO); ARRAY DESIGNS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; ERROR COVARIANCES; ERROR VARIANCES; GEOPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS; GLOBAL OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM (GOOS); HIGH PASS; INDIAN OCEANS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY (IAV); INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY (ISV); KALMAN FILTER THEORY; MIXED LAYER DEPTH (MLD); MONITOR (CO); ROSSBY WAVES; SEA LEVEL ANOMALY (SLA); TIME SERIES; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN (TIO); WIDE-RANGE;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; MIXED LAYER; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA LEVEL; TIME SERIES;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 45849109625     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JTECHO553.1     Document Type: Article

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