Assessment of traditional and new eigenfunction bases applied to extrapolation of surface geostrophic current time series to below the surface in an idealized primitive equation simulation

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 165-178

  Scott, Robert B ^a   Furnival, Darran G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Currents; Ocean circulation; Primitive equations model; Time series

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC MODE; BAROTROPIC; BAROTROPIC MODE; BASIS FUNCTIONS; DENSITY SURFACES; EIGEN FUNCTION; FREE-SURFACE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; PHASE LOCKED; PHASE-LOCKING; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA FLOOR; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SURFACE GEOSTROPHIC CURRENTS; TEMPORAL FLUCTUATION; ZERO VELOCITY;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EXTRAPOLATION; FORECASTING; OCEAN CURRENTS; TIME SERIES;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BAROCLINIC MODE; BAROCLINIC MOTION; BAROTROPIC MODE; BOUNDARY CONDITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUE; EQUATION; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEAFLOOR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857684157     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JPO4523.1     Document Type: Article

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