Coupled atmosphere–ocean data assimilation experiments with a low-order model and CMIP5 model data

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 5-6, 2015, Pages 1415-1427

  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; Cost effective; Coupled atmosphere ocean data assimilation; Estimation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ESTIMATION METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN;

EID: 84940718139     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2390-3     Document Type: Article

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