An eddy-permitting, dynamically consistent adjoint-based assimilation system for the tropical Pacific: Hindcast experiments in 2000

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Hoteit, I ^a   Cornuelle, B ^b   Heimbach, P ^c  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TROPICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ADJOINT METHODS; ADJOINTS; ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; DATA SETS; ESTIMATED MODEL; EXPENDABLE BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HINDCASTS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; INDEPENDENT MODEL; MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; MODEL CONSISTENCY; MODEL STATE; MOMENTUM BALANCES; MULTIVARIATE DATA SETS; OPEN BOUNDARIES; PARAMETER SETTING; SATELLITE SST; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SINGLE CONFIGURATION; SMALL-SCALE FEATURES; SURFACE FLUX; SYSTEM USE; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN;

MODEL CHECKING;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; DATA SET; EDDY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HINDCASTING; MOMENTUM; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE FLUX; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 77953574611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005437     Document Type: Article

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