Impact of GODAE products on nested HYCOM simulations of the West Florida Shelf

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 139-155

  Halliwell Jr , George R ^a   Barth, Alexander ^b   Weisberg, Robert H ^c   Hogan, Patrick ^d   Smedstad, Ole Martin ^e   Cummings, James ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e STENNIS SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal circulation; Numerical modeling

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DOPPLER EFFECT; STORMS; TIME SERIES;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS; ALONGSHORE FLOWS; ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; ATLANTIC OCEANS; COASTAL CIRCULATION; GLOBAL OCEANS; GULF OF MEXICO; GYRE CIRCULATIONS; HINDCAST; LOOP CURRENTS; MODEL CHOICES; MODEL RESULTS; NUMERICAL MODELING; OPTIMUM INTERPOLATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SHELF EDGES; UPPER OCEANS; US NAVIES; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; BOUNDARY CONDITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYCLONE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HINDCASTING; MODEL TEST; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHELF DYNAMICS; TIME SERIES; WIND FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DRY TORTUGAS; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; GULF OF MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WEST FLORIDA SHELF;

EID: 59349105090     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-008-0173-2     Document Type: Article

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