Estimates of the Southern Ocean general circulation improved by animal-borne instruments

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 6176-6180

  Roquet, Fabien ^a   Wunsch, Carl ^b   Forget, Gael ^c   Heimbach, Patrick ^c   Guinet, Christophe ^d   Reverdin, Gilles ^e   Charrassin, Jean Benoit ^e   Bailleul, Frederic ^d   Costa, Daniel P ^f   Huckstadt, Luis A ^f   Goetz, Kimberly T ^f   Kovacs, Kit M ^g   Lydersen, Christian ^g   Biuw, Martin ^g   Nøst, Ole A ^g   Bornemann, Horst ^h   Ploetz, Joachim ^h   Bester, Marthan N ⁱ   McIntyre, Trevor ⁱ   Muelbert, Monica C ^j   Hindell, Mark A ^k   McMahon, Clive R ^k   Williams, Guy ^l   Harcourt, Robert ^m   Field, Iain C ^m   Chafik, Leon ^a   Nicholls, Keith W ⁿ   Boehme, Lars ^o   Fedak, Mike A ^o   more..

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^h ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^j FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^l UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^m MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁿ BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^o UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

animal borne sampling; hydrography; Southern Ocean; state estimation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL-BORNE INSTRUMENTS; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; CONDUCTIVITY TEMPERATURE DEPTHS; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; HYDROGRAPHY; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA ICE; STATE ESTIMATION;

ANIMALS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOPHYSICS; CALIBRATION; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; DATA SET; HYDROGRAPHY; ICE COVER; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PINNIPED; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SENSOR;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84888793101     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058304     Document Type: Article

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