Combination of statistical Kalman filters and data assimilation for improving ocean waves analysis and forecasting

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 59-60, Issue , 2012, Pages 11-23

  Emmanouil, George ^a,b   Galanis, George ^a,c   Kallos, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Hellenic National Meteorological Service   (Greece)

^c HELLENIC NAVAL ACADEMY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Kalman filters; Ocean wave modeling; Optimum interpolation

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS FLOWS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA ASSIMILATION TECHNIQUES; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; KALMAN FILTERING ALGORITHMS; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OPERATIONAL TOOLS; OPTIMUM INTERPOLATION; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SYSTEMATIC DEVIATION; WAVE ANALYSIS; WAVE MODELING; WAVE MODELS;

FORECASTING; INTERPOLATION; KALMAN FILTERS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING;

WATER WAVES;

DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; INTERPOLATION; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN WAVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84867748133     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2012.09.004     Document Type: Review

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