A central California coastal ocean modeling study: 1. Forward model and the influence of realistic versus climatological forcing

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Veneziani, M ^a   Edwards, C A ^a   Doyle, J D ^b   Foley, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NOAA SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; KINETIC ENERGY; LANDFORMS; MODEL STRUCTURES; SIMULATORS;

CALIFORNIA; CALIFORNIA CURRENT; CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEMS; COASTAL OCEAN; COUPLED OCEAN ATMOSPHERE MESOSCALE PREDICTION SYSTEM; DATA SETS; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; EXTERNAL FORCING; FORWARD MODELS; GLOBAL OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION EXPERIMENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MESOSCALE CIRCULATION; METEOROLOGICAL FIELDS; MODEL STUDY; NORTH AMERICAN; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPEN BOUNDARIES; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; REGIONAL OCEAN MODELING SYSTEM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL CYCLE; SPATIAL DOMAINS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SURFACE DRIFTER; SURFACE FORCING; WEST COAST;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; EDDY; GLOBAL OCEAN; KINETIC ENERGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 68149148710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC004774     Document Type: Article

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