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Forecasting dynamics and contaminant mixing in the Seas of
North Westem Europe ............................................................ 245
Dynamics ................................................................................ 247
Tides, surges, waves and turbulence intensity ....................... 247
Temperature and Salinity ....................................................... 249
Conservative tracers, Caesium 137 and dissolved metals ...... 251
Non-Conservative Tracers ...................................................... 252
Biological tracers ................................................................... 254
Ways forward - future developments ..................................... 255
Forecasting Wind-driven Ocean Waves ............................. 267
GERBRAND 1. KOMEN
Introduction ............................................................................ 267
Phenomenology ...................................................................... 267
Duration- and fetch-limited wave growth .............................. 268
Spectral evolution ................................................................... 270
The WAM model .................................................................... 273
The energy balance ................................................................. 275
Operational applications ......................................................... 277
Outlook ................................................................................... 277
A Multivariate Reduced-order Optimal Interpolation Method
and its Application to the Mediterranean Basin-scale
Circulation ............................................................................ 281
PIERRE DE MEY AND MOUNIR BENKIRAN
Introduction ............................................................................ 281
Optimal Interpolation on a base ofEOFs ............................... 282
Optimal interpolation ............................................................. 282
3-D EOFs ............................................................................... 283
Vertical EOFs ......................................................................... 286
Local statistical inverse .......................................................... 288
Assimilation of satellite altimetry in 1993-97 in the
Mediterranean ........................................................................ 289
How is the assimilation configured in the Mediterranean
model ..................................................................................... 289
Assimilation of simulated XBT profiles ................................ 291
Assimilation of altimeter data in 1993-97 .............................. 295
Influence ofhorizontal and vertical resolution in the
assimilation ............................................................................... 300
A briefsummary and perspective .......................................... 301