Assessment of observational networks with the Representer Matrix Spectra method-application to a 3D coastal model of the Bay of Biscay

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-20

  Le Hénaff, Matthieu ^a   De Mey, Pierre ^a   Marsaleix, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

Array design; Coastal ocean; Data assimilation; Model errors; Stochastic modeling

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; COVARIANCE MATRIX; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERRORS; INSTRUMENT SCALES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARRAY DESIGN; COASTAL OCEAN; DATA ASSIMILATION; MODEL ERRORS; STOCHASTIC MODELING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ALTIMETRY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA ASSIMILATION; DESIGN; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF BISCAY;

EID: 59349120960     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-008-0144-7     Document Type: Article

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