Impact of assimilating bottom pressure anomalies from GRACE on ocean circulation estimates

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Köhl, Armin ^a   Siegismund, Frank ^a   Stammer, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; LOADING; SEA ICE;

ALTIMETER DATA; ARCTIC OCEAN; ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; BAROTROPIC CIRCULATION; DATA SETS; GLOBAL DOMAIN; GLOBAL OCEAN; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; GRAVITY DATA; GRAVITY MAPS; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; POLAR LATITUDE; PRESSURE ANOMALY; REMAINING DIFFERENCES; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA ICE MODELS; SUBTROPICAL GYRE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BAROTROPIC MOTION; BOTTOM PRESSURE; DATA SET; EDDY; GLOBAL OCEAN; GRACE; GRAVITY ANOMALY; HYDROGRAPHY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; POLAR REGION; PRESSURE EFFECT; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84861396456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007623     Document Type: Article

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