Estimating surface velocities from satellite data and numerical models: Implementation and testing of a new simple method

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 190-203

  Mercatini, Alessandro ^a   Griffa, Annalisa ^a,b   Piterbarg, Leonid ^c   Zambianchi, Enrico ^d   Magaldi, Marcello G ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ligurian Sea; Mathematical models; Mediterranean sea; Ocean circulation; Oil spills; Remote sensing; Tracers; Transport processes

Indexed keywords

FLOW VARIABILITY; MEDITERRANEAN FORECASTING SYSTEM; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MODEL OUTPUTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; POLLUTANT RELEASE; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS; SATELLITE DATA; SIMPLE METHOD; SURFACE VELOCITY; SYNTHETIC DATA; TIME INTERVAL; TRANSPORT PROCESS; TWIN EXPERIMENTS; VELOCITY FIELD;

LEAKAGE (FLUID); MARINE POLLUTION; OCEAN CURRENTS; OIL SPILLS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE TESTING; VELOCITY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CURRENT VELOCITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OIL SPILL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TRACER; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

LIGURIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 77949918629     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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