Evaluation of the Global Ocean Data Assimilation System at INCOIS: The Tropical Indian Ocean

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 69, Issue , 2013, Pages 123-135

  Ravichandran, M ^a   Behringer, D ^b   Sivareddy, S ^a   Girishkumar, M S ^a   Chacko, Neethu ^a   Harikumar, R ^a  

^a INDIAN NATIONAL CENTRE FOR OCEAN INFORMATION SERVICES   (India)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Model configuration; Model validation; Ocean data assimilation; Ocean modeling; Tropical Indian Ocean; Wind sensitivity experiment

Indexed keywords

MODEL CONFIGURATION; MODEL VALIDATION; OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION; OCEAN MODELING; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN; WIND SENSITIVITY;

INFORMATION SERVICES; OCEAN CURRENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EXPERIMENTS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MODEL VALIDATION; MONSOON; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84880396553     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2013.05.003     Document Type: Article

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