A comparison between 3DVAR and EnOI techniques for satellite altimetry data assimilation

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 26, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 206-216

  Fu, Weiwei ^a   Zhu, Jiang ^a   Yan, Changxiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

3DVAR; Comparison; EnOI; Satellite altimetric data

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEA LEVEL; STREAM FLOW; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; WATER LEVELS;

3DVAR; ALTIMETRIC DATUMS; ANNUAL MEANS; COMPARISON; ENOI; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL SIMULATIONS; PACIFIC OCEANS; SALINITY FIELDS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRIC DATA; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY DATUMS; SEA LEVEL ANOMALIES; TEMPERATURE FIELDS; TOPEX/POSEIDON;

SATELLITES;

DATA ASSIMILATION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SIMULATION; THERMOCLINE; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 57749089612     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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