A global evaluation of ocean bottom pressure from GRACE, OMCT, and steric-corrected altimetry

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1395-1402

  Chambers, Don P ^a   Willis, Josh K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGO FLOAT; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; GAUSSIAN MAP; GAUSSIANS; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; LEAST SQUARES ESTIMATION; OCEAN MODEL; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; STANDARD DEVIATION;

CLIMATE MODELS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALTIMETRY; BOTTOM PRESSURE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GRACE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MAPPING; OCEAN TIDE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OCEANOGRAPHY; SMOOTHING;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77957731225     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JTECHO738.1     Document Type: Article

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