Can ocean color assimilation improve biogeochemical hindcasts in shelf seas?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Ciavatta, Stefano ^a   Torres, Ricardo ^a   Saux Picart, Stephane ^a   Allen, Julian Icarus ^a  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHLOROPHYLL; COLOR; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME SERIES;

DATA VALUES; ECOSYSTEM MODEL; ENGLISH CHANNEL; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; HINDCASTS; IN-SITU DATA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MONITORING STATIONS; OCEAN COLOR; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SHELF SEAS; SHORT-TERM FORECASTS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CHLOROPHYLL; CORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HINDCASTING; KALMAN FILTER; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OCEAN COLOR; SATELLITE DATA; SHELF SEA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIME SERIES;

ENGLISH CHANNEL;

EID: 84855472288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007219     Document Type: Article

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