Evaluation of the S(T) assimilation method with the Argo dataset

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 640, 2009, Pages 739-756

  Smith, Gregory C ^a   Haines, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Balance; Global; Hydrographic; Isothermal; Ocean; Reanalysis; Synthesis; Water masses

Indexed keywords

BALANCE; GLOBAL; HYDROGRAPHIC; ISOTHERMAL; OCEAN; REANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS; WATER MASSES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; ISOTHERMS; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TROPICS;

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; GLOBAL OCEAN; GYRE; MIXING; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SALINITY; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPICAL REGION; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 69549135858     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.395     Document Type: Article

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