The theoretical impact of remotely sensed sea surface salinity observations in a multi-variate assimilation system

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 27, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 70-81

  Brassington, Gary B ^a   Divakaran, Prasanth ^b  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aquarius; Ocean data assimilation; Sea surface salinity; SMOS

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER LEVELS;

ANALYTICAL FORMULATIONS; AQUARIUS; ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; FORECAST ERROR VARIANCES; FORECAST ERRORS; GLOBAL OBSERVATIONS; GLOBAL OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEMS; HIGH-LATITUDES; MULTI-VARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVATION ERRORS; OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION; OCEAN STATE; OPTIMAL INTERPOLATIONS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SATELLITE MISSIONS; SEA LEVEL ANOMALIES; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SMOS;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

DATA ASSIMILATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE MISSION; SEA SURFACE SALINITY;

EID: 59249103431     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2008.12.005     Document Type: Article

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