The Predictability of the Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation Investigated Through Data Assimilation

Abstract

The long-term goal is to investigate basic predictability issues related to model sensitivities, to uncertainties in the initial and boundary conditions; how these sensitivities are dependent on different model dynamics, different data types and data distribution; how their assessment can lead to the evaluation of model errors as intrinsic component of the data assimilation method used.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2003
Accession Number
ADA629940

Entities

People

  • Paola Malanotte-rizzoli

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altimetry
  • Assimilation
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Bodies Of Water
  • Boundaries
  • Covariance
  • Earth Sciences
  • Filters
  • Geography
  • Jet Streams
  • Kalman Filters
  • Ocean Currents
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Planetary Sciences
  • Power Spectra
  • Wind

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers