Assimilating temperature and salinity profile observations using an anisotropic recursive filter in a coastal ocean model

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 30, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 75-87

  Liu, Ye ^a,d   Zhu, Jiang ^a   She, Jun ^b   Zhuang, Shiyu ^b   Fu, Weiwei ^b   Gao, Jidong ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Anisotropic recursive filter; Coastal ocean data assimilation; Ocean forecast

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC RECURSIVE FILTER; BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; BALTIC SEA; COASTAL OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION; COASTAL OCEAN MODEL; COMPUTING EFFICIENCY; CONTOUR SURFACE; GRID POINTS; NORTH SEA; OBSERVATION INFORMATION; OCEAN FORECAST; OCEAN PROFILES; PROFILE OBSERVATIONS; RECURSIVE FILTERS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCES;

ANISOTROPY; DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SALINITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; NORTH SEA;

EID: 68749089503     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.06.005     Document Type: Article

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