Improvements to a global ocean data assimilation system through the incorporation of Aquarius surface salinity data

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 692, 2015, Pages 2750-2759

  Toyoda, Takahiro ^a   Fujii, Yosuke ^a   Kuragano, Tsurane ^a   Matthews, John P ^b   Abe, Hiroto ^c   Ebuchi, Naoto ^c   Usui, Norihisa ^a   Ogawa, Koji ^d   Kamachi, Masafumi ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3DVAR; Aquarius; Data assimilation; Mode water; Ocean estimation; Sea surface salinity

Indexed keywords

CELL PROLIFERATION; SURFACE WATERS; VORTICITY;

3DVAR; AQUARIUS; DATA ASSIMILATION; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC; SALINITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AQUARIUS; DATA ASSIMILATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AMAZON RIVER; ARCTIC OCEAN; INDONESIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84937067293     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2561     Document Type: Article

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