Ocean altimeter assimilation with observational- and model-bias correction

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 636, 2008, Pages 1761-1774

  Lea, Daniel J ^a,b   Drecourt, J P ^a   Haines, K ^a   Martin, M J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian; FOAM; Mean dynamic topography

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; ONTOLOGY; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

ABSOLUTE DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHIES; ALTIMETER DATUMS; AND MODELS; BAYESIAN; BIAS CORRECTIONS; FORECASTING OCEAN ASSIMILATION MODELS; GRAVITY FIELDS; LINE MODELS; MEAN DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHIES; MEAN DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY; OCEAN ALTIMETERS; OCEAN CIRCULATIONS; OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATIONS; SEA SURFACES; SEA-LEVEL; SUBSURFACE DENSITIES; UNBIASED ESTIMATES; UNIFIED MODELS;

DYNAMIC MODELS;

ALTIMETER; ALTIMETRY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR CORRECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOID; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SAMPLING BIAS; SEA LEVEL; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 57349189002     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.320     Document Type: Article

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