Development of a variational data assimilation system for the diurnal cycle of sea surface temperature

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2845-2862

  While, J ^a   Martin, M ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

data assimilation; diurnal SST

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA ACQUISITION; EXPERIMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; VALUE ENGINEERING; WIND STRESS;

CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DIURNAL SST; OBSERVATIONAL ERRORS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; ZERO-DIMENSIONAL MODELS;

HEAT FLUX;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEAT FLUX; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND FIELD; WIND STRESS;

EID: 84882755839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20215     Document Type: Article

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