Using satellite altimetry to correct mean temperature and salinity fields derived from Argo floats in the ocean regions around Australia

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1137-1151

  Ridgway, K R ^a   Dunn, J R ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian regional seas; Barotropic baroclinic balance; Ocean mean fields; Ocean observations

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETRIC OBSERVATIONS; ARGO FLOAT; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN REGIONAL SEAS; BAROCLINIC; BAROTROPIC; BOUNDARY CURRENTS; COMPLEX TOPOGRAPHIES; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CURRENT SYSTEM; EMPIRICAL MODEL; GLOBAL SAMPLING; HIGH VARIABILITY; IN-SITU; IN-SITU TEMPERATURE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LEEUWIN CURRENT; MEAN FIELD; MEAN TEMPERATURE; OCEAN OBSERVATIONS; OPTIMAL SAMPLING; SALINITY FIELDS; SAMPLING ERRORS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL ANOMALY; SIMPLE METHOD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE CORRECTIONS; WATER COLUMNS; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ERRORS; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; SATELLITES; SEA LEVEL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARGO; BAROCLINIC MOTION; BAROTROPIC MOTION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ERROR CORRECTION; GLOBAL OCEAN; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; INTERPOLATION; SALINITY; SAMPLING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER COLUMN; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77955663906     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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