A MITgcm/DART ensemble analysis and prediction system with application to the Gulf of Mexico

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 63, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-23

  Hoteit, Ibrahim ^a   Hoar, Tim ^b   Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh ^c   Collins, Nancy ^b   Anderson, Jeffrey ^b   Cornuelle, Bruce ^c   Köhl, Armin ^d   Heimbach, Patrick ^e  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensemble Kalman filter; Gulf of Mexico; Ocean state estimation

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; GULF OF MEXICO; MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN-STATE ESTIMATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTERS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

EXPERIMENTS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 84876701633     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2013.03.002     Document Type: Article

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