Analysis and forecasting of sea ice conditions with three-dimensional variational data assimilation and a coupled ice-ocean model

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 353-369

  Caya, Alain ^a   Buehner, Mark ^a   Carrieres, Tom ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND ERRORS; CANADIAN ICE SERVICES; COVARIANCE PARAMETERS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; EAST COAST; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; FORECAST MODEL; GAUSSIAN SHAPE; ICE CHARTS; ICE-OCEAN MODELS; MULTIPLE SOURCE; NUMERICAL MODELS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OCEAN STATE; RADARSAT IMAGES; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SEA ICE CONDITIONS; SHORT-TERM FORECASTS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; VARIOUS CONFIGURATION;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR STATISTICS; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CORRELATION; COUPLING; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAUSSIAN METHOD; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERSISTENCE; SEA ICE;

EID: 77952500382     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JTECHO701.1     Document Type: Article

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