Assimilating remote sensing and in situ observations into a coastal model of northern South China Sea using ensemble Kalman filter

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2011, Pages S24-S36

  Shu, Yeqiang ^a   Zhu, Jiang ^b   Wang, Dongxiao ^a   Xiao, Xianjun ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Covariance; Data assimilation; Ensemble Kalman filter; Model error perturbations

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951696333     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: 18736955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2011.01.017     Document Type: Article

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