Extended reconstructed sea surface temperature version 4 (ERSST.v4): Part II. Parametric and structural uncertainty estimations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 931-951

  Liu, Wei ^a,b   Huang, Boyin ^b   Thorne, Peter W ^c   Banzon, Viva F ^b   Zhang, Huai Min ^b   Freeman, Eric ^b,d   Lawrimore, Jay ^b   Peterson, Thomas C ^b   Smith, Thomas M ^e   Woodruff, Scott D ^b,f  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^c NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^d STG Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MILITARY OPERATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

IMPORTANT FEATURES; MONTE CARLO ENSEMBLE; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; PARAMETRIC -ANALYSIS; PARAMETRIC UNCERTAINTIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; STRUCTURAL UNCERTAINTY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; HADLEY CELL; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84923033018     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00007.1     Document Type: Article

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