Bayesian modelling and ensemble reconstruction of mid-scale spatial variability in North Atlantic sea-surface temperatures for 1850-2008

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 662, 2012, Pages 234-248

  Karspeck, Alicia R ^a   Kaplan, Alexey ^b   Sain, Stephan R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Historical SST reconstruction; Multi scale reconstruction; Non stationary covariance; Optimal interpolation; Parametric methods; Reduced space; Uncertainty quantification

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; MULTISCALES; NON-STATIONARY COVARIANCE; OPTIMAL INTERPOLATION; PARAMETRIC METHOD; REDUCED SPACE; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; MARINE APPLICATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; INTERPOLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84856225385     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.900     Document Type: Article

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