Potential outcomes of glider data assimilation in the Solomon Sea: Control of the water mass properties and parameter estimation

Journal of Marine Systems

Volumn 94, Issue , 2012, Pages 232-246

  Melet, A ^a   Verron, J ^a   Brankart, J M ^a  

^a LEGI   (France)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Glider; OSSE; Parameter estimation; Solomon Sea; Tidal mixing

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; CONTROL EFFICIENCY; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; MASS FIELDS; OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OCEAN-STATE ESTIMATION; OSSE; POTENTIAL OUTCOMES; SOLOMON SEA; SPACE AND TIME; THERMOHALINE; TIDAL MIXING; UNDERWATER GLIDERS; WATER-MASS PROPERTIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; GLIDERS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DATA PROCESSING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; WATER MASS;

CORAL SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOLOMON SEA;

EID: 84856276864     PISSN: 09247963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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