Contribution of a wide-swath altimeter in a shelf seas assimilation system: Impact of thesatellite roll errors

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2133-2144

  Le Henaff, Matthiieu ^a   De Mey, Pierre ^a   Mourre, Baptiste ^b   Le Traon, Pierre Yves ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; BAROTROPIC; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DATA ASSIMILATIONS; DOMAIN OF INFLUENCES; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTERS; EUROPEAN SHELVES; FREE-SURFACE MODELS; GAUSSIAN ERRORS; HIGHLY SENSITIVES; LARGE AMPLITUDES; METEOROLOGICAL FORCING; MODEL ERRORS; NORTH SEAS; OBSERVATIONAL ERRORS; SHELF SEAS; SIMULATED DATUM; SLOPE MEASUREMENTS; SWATH ALTIMETERS; TRACK DIRECTIONS;

COASTAL ZONES; CONTROL THEORY; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; SATELLITES; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER;

ERRORS;

AMPLITUDE; COASTAL ZONE; CORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR CORRECTION; KALMAN FILTER; NADIR; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SHELF SEA; SWATH BATHYMETRY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 65549170714     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JTECHO576.1     Document Type: Article

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