Improving mass redistribution estimates by modeling ocean bottom pressure uncertainties

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Brunnabend, S E ^a   Rietbroek, R ^b   Timmermann, R ^a   Schrter, J ^a   Kusche, J ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BOTTOM PRESSURE RECORDERS; DATA SETS; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; ERROR ESTIMATES; ERROR MODEL; ESTIMATED ERROR; FINITE ELEMENT; FRESH WATER; GRAVITY MEASUREMENT; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; GRID CELLS; IN-SITU; INVERSE SOLUTION; JOINT INVERSION; MASS BUDGET; MASS CORRECTION; MASS REDISTRIBUTION; MODEL RESULTS; MODEL SIMULATION; OCEAN MODEL; POLAR REGIONS; PRESSURE ANOMALY; ROSS SEA; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TIME-SCALES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GPS; GRACE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLAR REGION; PRESSURE EFFECT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE;

ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 80052335659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006617     Document Type: Article

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