Analysis of four-dimensional variational state estimation of the Hawaiian waters

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Matthews, D ^a   Powell, B S ^a   Janekovic I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TIDES; VALUE ENGINEERING;

ARGO FLOAT; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BAROCLINIC TIDES; CONDUCTIVITY TEMPERATURE DEPTHS; DENSITY FIELDS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-SITU TEMPERATURE; INERTIAL ENERGY; INERTIAL OSCILLATION; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INTERNAL TIDE GENERATION; MESOSCALE VARIABILITY; MINIMAL EFFECTS; REGIONAL OCEAN MODELING SYSTEM; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEAGLIDERS; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ALTIMETRY; ARGO; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DATA ASSIMILATION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; INTERNAL TIDE; MESOSCALE MOTION; RADIOMETER; SALINITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS;

EID: 84858398838     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007575     Document Type: Article

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