Improved water-level forecasting for the Northwest European Shelf and North Sea through direct modelling of tide, surge and non-linear interaction Topical Collection on the 16th biennial workshop of the Joint Numerical Sea Modelling Group (JONSMOD) in Brest, France 21-23 May 2012

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 823-847

  Zijl, Firmijn ^a   Verlaan, Martin ^a   Gerritsen, Herman ^a  

^a DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Modelling; Radar altimeter data; Storm surge prediction; Tide surge interaction

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA ASSIMILATION TECHNIQUES; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL SIMULATIONS; RADAR ALTIMETERS; SATELLITE ALTIMETER DATA; STORM SURGES; TIDE-SURGE INTERACTION;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; COASTAL ZONES; FORECASTING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MODELS; NUMERICAL MODELS; RADIO ALTIMETERS; TIDE GAGES; WATER LEVELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; FORECASTING METHOD; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; TIDAL MODELING; TIDE GAUGE; WATER LEVEL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BREST [FINISTERE]; BRETAGNE; FINISTERE; FRANCE; NORTH SEA; NORTHWEST EUROPEAN SHELF;

EID: 84879841263     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-013-0624-2     Document Type: Article

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