Evaluation of the tropical variability from the Beijing Climate Center’s real-time operational global Ocean Data Assimilation System

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 208-220

  Zhou, Wei ^a   Chen, Mengyan ^b   Zhuang, Wei ^b   Xu, Fanghua ^c   Zheng, Fei ^d   Wu, Tongwen ^a   Wang, Xin ^b  

^a China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

3DVAR; El Ni no; global ocean; interannual variability; operational oceanography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84951913986     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-015-4282-9     Document Type: Article

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