Super-ensemble forecasts and resulting acoustic sensitivities in shallow waters

Journal of Marine Systems

Volumn 78, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Rixen, Michel ^a   Le Gac, J C ^a   Hermand, Jean Pierre ^b,c   Peggion, Germana ^d   Coelho, Emanuel ^e  

^a NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c Royal Netherlands Naval College   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Kalman filter; Multi model super ensemble; Ocean acoustic predictions; Sound speed; Tomography

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; KALMAN FILTERS; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC SENSITIVITY; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; OCEAN ACOUSTICS; RAPID ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS; SOUND SPEED; SUPER ENSEMBLES;

FORECASTING;

ACOUSTIC METHOD; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; KALMAN FILTER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REAL TIME; SHALLOW WATER; SOUND VELOCITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ELBA; ITALY; LIVORNO [TUSCANY]; TUSCAN ARCHIPELAGO; TUSCANY;

EID: 74349083792     PISSN: 09247963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2009.01.013     Document Type: Article

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