A reduced-dynamics variational approach for the assimilation of altimeter data into eddy-resolving ocean models

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 215-229

  Yu, Peng ^a   Morey, Steven L ^a   O'Brien, James J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ocean modeling; Variational adjoint methods

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; DYNAMICS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADJOINT EQUATIONS; ADJOINT MODELS; ADJOINT TECHNIQUES; ALTIMETER DATUM; BAROCLINIC MODES; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DEEP OCEANS; GULF OF MEXICO; MID-LATITUDES; NAVY COASTAL OCEAN MODELS; NORMAL MODES; OCEAN MODELING; OCEAN MODELS; REDUCED DIMENSIONALITIES; REDUCED-GRAVITY MODELS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRIES; SEA SURFACE HEIGHTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS; VARIATIONAL ADJOINT METHODS; VARIATIONAL APPROACHES; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATIONS;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

ADJOINT METHOD; BAROCLINIC MODE; DATA ASSIMILATION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 61449114664     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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