A reanalysis of ocean climate using Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2999-3017

  Carton, James A ^a   Giese, Benjamin S ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CLIMATOLOGY; ENTHALPY; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; WATER LEVELS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSIS; CLIMATE-VARIABILITY; DATA ASSIMILATION; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FORECAST MODELS; HYDROGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS; HYDROGRAPHIC PROFILES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITIES; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; RE-ANALYSIS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SEA LEVEL VARIABILITY; SIMPLE OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION; SURFACE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; MODELING; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

EID: 53249113639     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR1978.1     Document Type: Article

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