Observing system simulation experiments with ensemble Kalman filters in Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Xue, Pengfei ^a   Chen, Changsheng ^a,b,c   Beardsley, Robert C ^a,b   Limeburner, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; KALMAN FILTERS; METADATA; MONITORING; OCEAN CURRENTS; OPTIMIZATION; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE;

COASTAL OCEAN; COASTAL SYSTEMS; CONVERGENCE RATES; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; FINITE-VOLUME; FORECAST MODEL; MASSACHUSETTS; MONITORING NETWORK; MONITORING SITES; MULTISCALES; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN MODEL; PILOT STUDIES; PROPER ORTHOGONAL DECOMPOSITIONS; SIGNAL VARIANCE; SPATIAL MODES; SURFACE ELEVATIONS; TIME-SCALES; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; WATER PROPERTIES; WATER TEMPERATURES;

DATA PROCESSING;

BIOMONITORING; COASTAL ZONE; DATA ASSIMILATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERTURBATION; SALINITY; VELOCITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

MASSACHUSETTS; NANTUCKET SOUND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79251612412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006428     Document Type: Article

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