Impact of multialtimeter sea level assimilation in the Mediterranean forecasting model

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2065-2082

  Pujol, M I ^a   Dobricic, S ^b   Pinardi, N ^c   Adani, M ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Forecasting; Mediterranean Sea; Satellite observations; Sea level

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER DATA; ALTIMETER MISSIONS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENVISAT; FORECASTING MODELS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; JASON-1; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MODEL SIMULATION; MULTI-MISSION SATELLITES; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY EXPERIMENTS; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE ORBIT; SEA LEVEL ANOMALY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOPEX/POSEIDON;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SEA LEVEL;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ALTIMETER; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 78650972070     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JTECHO715.1     Document Type: Article

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