A 4DVAR system for the Navy Coastal Ocean model. Part I: System description and assimilation of synthetic observations in Monterey Bay

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2085-2107

  Ngodock, Hans ^a   Carrier, Matthew ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING;

4D-VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; DATA ASSIMILATION; GRADIENT DESCENT METHOD; INITIAL CONDITIONS; NAVY COASTAL OCEAN MODELS; OCEAN OBSERVATIONS; SYSTEM DESCRIPTION;

EXPERIMENTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE FORCING; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR CORRECTION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84901644072     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00221.1     Document Type: Article

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