A glider network design study for a synoptic view of the oceanic mesoscale variability

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1472-1493

  L'Hévéder, Blandine ^a   Mortier, Laurent ^b   Testor, Pierre ^c   Lekien, Françis ^d  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b ENSTA PARISTECH   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IN-SITU EXPERIMENTS; MESOSCALE STRUCTURE; MESOSCALE VARIABILITY; OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMIZATION;

GLIDERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERPOLATION; MESOSCALE EDDY; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NETWORK DESIGN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84881524615     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-12-00053.1     Document Type: Article

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