Accuracy in mooring motion temperature corrections

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2293-2303

  Meinen, Christopher S ^a  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY BOUNDS; CORRECTION TECHNIQUES; DATA SETS; ECHO SOUNDERS; GULF STREAMS; HYDROGRAPHIC DATUM; KUROSHIO; MOTION ALIASING; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE PRESSURES; TEMPERATURE CORRECTIONS; TEMPERATURE DATUM; UPPER ENDS; VELOCITY AMPLITUDES; VERTICAL MOTIONS; WATER LAYERS;

ERRORS; MOORING; OCEAN ENGINEERING; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY; MOORING SYSTEM; SENSOR; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM;

EID: 65549156674     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JTECHO555.1     Document Type: Article

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