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NONLINEAR PROCESSES IN GEOPHYSICS
卷 24, 期 4, 页码 613-643出版社
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/npg-24-613-2017
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- European Space Agency [4000109513/13/I-LG]
- Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain
- FEDER EU through National R+D Plan under COSMO [CTM2016-79474-R]
- PROMISES [ESP2015-67549-C3-2-R]
- Office of Naval Research [N00014-16-1-2492]
- Fundacion General CSIC (Programa ComFuturo)
Ocean currents play a key role in Earth's climate - they impact almost any process taking place in the ocean and are of major importance for navigation and human activities at sea. Nevertheless, their observation and forecasting are still difficult. First, no observing system is able to provide direct measurements of global ocean currents on synoptic scales. Consequently, it has been necessary to use sea surface height and sea surface temperature measurements and refer to dynamical frameworks to derive the velocity field. Second, the assimilation of the velocity field into numerical models of ocean circulation is difficult mainly due to lack of data. Recent experiments that assimilate coastal-based radar data have shown that ocean currents will contribute to increasing the forecast skill of surface currents, but require application in multidata assimilation approaches to better identify the thermohaline structure of the ocean. In this paper we review the current knowledge in these fields and provide a global and systematic view of the technologies to retrieve ocean velocities in the upper ocean and the available approaches to assimilate this information into ocean models.
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