Pathways of the North Pacific Intermediate Water identified through the tangent linear and adjoint models of an ocean general circulation model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2035-2051

  Fujii, Yosuke ^a   Nakano, Toshiya ^a,b   Usui, Norihisa ^a   Matsumoto, Satoshi ^b   Tsujino, Hiroyuki ^a   Kamachi, Masafumi ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

adjoint; Emperor Seamount chain; Kurshio Extension; NPIW; Oyashio; Shatsky Rise

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ADJOINTS; KURSHIO EXTENSION; NPIW; OYASHIO; SEAMOUNT CHAINS; SHATSKY RISE;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ADJOINT METHOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GYRE; INTERMEDIATE WATER; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEAMOUNT; WATER MASS;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK; SHATSKY RISE;

EID: 84878035419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20094     Document Type: Article

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