Implementation of a reduced rank square-root smoother for high resolution ocean data assimilation

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 87-100

  Cosme, E ^a   Brankart, J M ^a   Verron, J ^a   Brasseur, P ^a   Krysta, M ^a,b  

^a LEGI   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

High resolution ocean modelling; Kalman filtering; Retrospective data assimilation; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TIME; DATA ASSIMILATION; FILTER ALGORITHM; FIXED TIME INTERVAL; FUTURE OBSERVATIONS; GLOBAL ERRORS; HIGH RESOLUTION; KALMAN-FILTERING; MESOSCALE; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL-ERROR PARAMETERIZATION; MODIFIED ALGORITHMS; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION; OCEAN MODELLING; REDUCED RANK; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SATELLITE TRACKS; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SQUARE-ROOT; STATE ESTIMATES; TIME DISTANCE; TWIN EXPERIMENTS; VERTICAL PROFILE;

DATA PROCESSING; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; KALMAN FILTERS; PARAMETERIZATION; STATE ESTIMATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GYRE; KALMAN FILTER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SMOOTHING; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 77949918732     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.12.004     Document Type: Article

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