Evaluation of global monitoring and forecasting systems at Mercator Océan

Ocean Science

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 57-81

  Lellouche, J M ^a   Le Galloudec, O ^a   Drevillon M ^a   Regnier C ^a   Greiner, E ^b   Garric, G ^a   Ferry, N ^a   Desportes, C ^a   Testut, C E ^a   Bricaud, C ^a   Bourdalle Badie R ^a   Tranchant, B ^b   Benkiran, M ^b   Drillet, Y ^a   Daudin, A ^a   De Nicola, C ^a  

^a MERCATOR OCÉAN   (France)

^b CLS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CORRECTION; KALMAN FILTER; QUALITY CONTROL; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84872733453     PISSN: 18120784     EISSN: 18120792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/os-9-57-2013     Document Type: Article

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