Coupled atmosphere-ocean data assimilation experiments with a low-order climate model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 5-6, 2014, Pages 1631-1643

  Tardif, Robert ^a   Hakim, Gregory J ^a   Snyder, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic meridional overturning circulation; Data assimilation; Initialization; Internal climate variability; Predictability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84906941480     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1989-0     Document Type: Article

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