Hindcasts and forecasts of Loop Current and eddies in the Gulf of Mexico using local ensemble transform Kalman filter and optimum-interpolation assimilation schemes

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 69, Issue , 2013, Pages 22-38

  Xu, F H ^a,b   Oey, L Y ^a,c   Miyazawa, Y ^d   Hamilton, P ^e  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Gulf of Mexico; Local ensemble transform Kalman filter; Loop Current and eddies; Optimum interpolation

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; GULF OF MEXICO; LOOP CURRENT; OPTIMUM INTERPOLATION; PARALLELIZED VERSION; PRINCETON OCEAN MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA-SURFACE HEIGHT ANOMALIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; INTERPOLATION; KALMAN FILTERS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; EDDY; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; HINDCASTING; INTERPOLATION; KALMAN FILTER; OCEANIC CURRENT; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRANSFORM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 84879754197     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2013.05.002     Document Type: Article

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