Dynamically and Kinematically Consistent Global Ocean Circulation and Ice State Estimates

• Main Authors: Wunsch, Carl, Heimbach, Patrick
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier BV 2013
• Subjects: general circulation; state estimation; data assimilation; reanalysis; sea ice physics; adjoint methods; ice-ocean interactions; ECCO; Arctic; Lagrange; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12136112; https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-391851-2.00021-0

The World Ocean Circulation Experiment drove the development of estimates of the decadal scale time evolving general circulation that are dynamically and kinematically consistent. A long timescale, and a goal of estimation rather than prediction, preclude the use of meteorological methods called “da...