On the response of Black Sea level to external forcing: Altimeter data and numerical modelling

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 123-140

  Grayek, Sebastian ^a   Stanev, Emil V ^b   Kandilarov, Rostislav ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Sea level height; Water budget

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER DATA; BLACK SEA; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; DATA ASSIMILATION; EXTERNAL FORCING; NUMERICAL MODELLING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OCEAN DYNAMICS; SEA LEVEL HEIGHT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBBASINS; WATER BALANCE; WATER BUDGET; WATER CYCLE; WATER PROPERTIES;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; BUDGET CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

SEA LEVEL;

ALTIMETER; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PYCNOCLINE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEMIENCLOSED SEA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER BUDGET; WATER CHEMISTRY; WIND FORCING;

BLACK SEA;

EID: 77649231876     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-009-0249-7     Document Type: Article

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