Open and coastal seas interactions south of Japan represented by an ensemble Kalman filter

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 645-659

  Miyazawa, Yasumasa ^a   Miyama, Toru ^a   Varlamov, Sergey M ^a   Guo, Xinyu ^a,b   Waseda, Takuji ^a,c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ensemble Kalman filter; Kii channel front; Kuroshio; OGCM

Indexed keywords

COASTAL SEAS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; ENSEMBLE TRANSFORMATION KALMAN FILTER; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; IN-SITU TEMPERATURE; KII CHANNEL FRONT; KUROSHIO; KUROSHIO WATERS; OCEAN MODEL; OCEANIC CONDITIONS; OGCM; PRINCETON OCEAN MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA-SURFACE HEIGHT ANOMALIES; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; THERMOHALINE; WATER-MASS PROPERTIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTRUSION DETECTION; OCEAN CURRENTS;

KALMAN FILTERS;

COASTAL WATER; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPEN OCEAN; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

JAPAN; KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84861096902     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-011-0516-2     Document Type: Article

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