The Assimilation of Jason-2 Significant Wave Height Data in the North Indian Ocean Using the Ensemble Optimal Interpolation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 287-297

  Qi, Peng ^a   Cao, Lei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; ensemble optimal interpolation (EnOI); NOAA WAVEWATCH III (NWW3); satellite altimeter data

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; INTERPOLATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; WATER WAVES;

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; LONG TIME INTEGRATIONS; OPTIMAL INTERPOLATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SATELLITE ALTIMETER; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SPECTRAL WAVE MODELS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

DATA ASSIMILATION; INTERPOLATION; JASON; MODEL VALIDATION; NOAA SATELLITE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA STATE; SWELL; WAVE HEIGHT;

ARABIAN SEA; BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84947486093     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2456035     Document Type: Article

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