Seasonal climate modeling over the Indian Ocean by employing a 4D-VAR coupled data assimilation approach

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Mochizuki, Takashi ^a   Sugiura, Nozomi ^a   Awaji, Toshiyuki ^a,b   Toyoda, Takahiro ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; RAIN;

ADJOINT METHODS; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGICAL FIELDS; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLE; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INTERANNUAL; MEAN ERRORS; SEASONAL CYCLE; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 76749132896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC005208     Document Type: Article

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