Assimilation of RAPID array observations into an ocean model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 669, 2012, Pages 2105-2117

  Stepanov, Vladimir N ^a   Haines, Keith ^a   Smith, Gregory C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atlantic; MOC

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC; BOUNDARY DATA; DATA SETS; DEEP TEMPERATURES; FLORIDA; GAUSSIANS; LOCAL IMPACTS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MOC; OCEAN MODEL; SHORT PERIODS; STREAMFUNCTIONS; SUBPOLAR GYRES; WARM WATER; WATER FORMATION; WESTERN BOUNDARY;

HYDROLOGY;

NAVIGATION;

DATA ASSIMILATION; GYRE; HYDROGRAPHY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; UPPER OCEAN;

EID: 84871636174     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1945     Document Type: Article

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