A hybrid background error covariance model for assimilating glider data into a coastal ocean model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1879-1890

  Yaremchuk, Max ^a   Nechaev, Dmitri ^b   Pan, Chudong ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft observations; Data assimilation; Model evaluation performance; Ocean models; Variational analysis

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; DATA ASSIMILATION; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; OCEAN MODEL; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS;

DATA PROCESSING; ERROR STATISTICS; GLIDERS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEURISTICS; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CALIFORNIA; MONTEREY BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959634821     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3510.1     Document Type: Article

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