The ability of the adjoint technique to recover decadal variability of the North Atlantic circulation

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 69, Issue , 2013, Pages 166-180

  Brüdgam, Michael ^a   Eden, Carsten ^a   Czeschel, Lars ^a   Baehr, Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adjoint method; Data assimilation; Decadal variability; Meridional overturning circulation

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT METHODS; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DECADAL VARIABILITY; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MODEL CONFIGURATION; OPTIMISTIC ESTIMATES; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

ADJOINT METHOD; DATA ASSIMILATION; DECADAL VARIATION; HEAT FLUX; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTURN; RECONSTRUCTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84881258901     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2013.06.006     Document Type: Article

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