Subject Index
A
adaptive sampling 203,224
ADCP, Acoustic Doppler Current
Profiler 210,260,357
Adriatic Sea 52, 341, 369
air mass 117
air-sea
- interactions 150,161,166,203,310,
351
- physics parameterization 362
altimeter data 31, 33, 117, 119, 129
altimeters 21,98,117,355
altimetry 21,22,33,208,289,297,358
analysis 39,73,87
ana1ysis error 74,93, 128,283
analysis error covariance matrix 282
analyzed estimate 99, 101,282,304
Antarctic Circumpolar Wave Current 160
ARGO 4,11,20,351
assimilation 3, 19,22,33,35,43,49,73,
93, 97, 108, 112, 115, 117, 118,
122,125,131,144,204,209,
216,224,232,234,277,281,
289,291,300,308,324,333,
335, 339,348,352,358,370,
376
atmospheric data assimilation 73
atmospheric water vapour 20
AUV, Autonomous Underwater
Vehicles 202,351
Azores VPE 392,400, 409, 423
B
background
- covariance 74
- error variances 283
bacteria 373
BALTEX 195
Baltic Sea 195, 231
baroclinic 27,28,69,118,136,183,203,
232,259,289,364
- life-cycles 13 1
barotropic 27,28,34,55, 136, 183, 185,
203,231,261,289,295,303,
326,361
basic state 13 3, 141
bathymetry 58, 202, 213, 248, 255, 363,
365
Bayes' theorem 75,76
- discrete 85
Bayesian analysis 76, 78
Bermuda Testbed Mooring 351
Best Analysis 87
467
biological primitive equations 377,380,
384,413
biological tracers 254
biomass simulation 373
BLI, Biological Lagrangian
Integration 378,381,385,427
BOFS, Biogeochemical Ocean Flux
Study 243
bottom
- boundary layer 55,203,358
- pressure 119
- stress 363
- torque 121
- vertical boundary conditions 363
Bryan-Cox model 55
butterfly problem 131
C
Caesium 137 251
Canonical Correlation Analysis 161,334
climate drift 323
coastal bathymetric evolution 255
coastal marine predictions 340
coasta! monitoring 8, 357
coastal scale models 360
competition 343,398,405,412,427
Complex Adaptive Systems 380
computational
- instability 183
- mode 187
contaminant mixing 245
convergence ofthe assimilation 122
coordinate systcm 57,71,286,364
corrector step 191
correlation 80,283,291,314,328,332
correlation error 327
correlation function 74, 83,288
coupled mode 170
coupled models 141, 158,255,308,320,
322,334
coupled ocean-atmosphere 34,154,155,
159,176,307,316,348,353
A
adaptive sampling 203,224
ADCP, Acoustic Doppler Current
Profiler 210,260,357
Adriatic Sea 52, 341, 369
air mass 117
air-sea
- interactions 150,161,166,203,310,
351
- physics parameterization 362
altimeter data 31, 33, 117, 119, 129
altimeters 21,98,117,355
altimetry 21,22,33,208,289,297,358
analysis 39,73,87
ana1ysis error 74,93, 128,283
analysis error covariance matrix 282
analyzed estimate 99, 101,282,304
Antarctic Circumpolar Wave Current 160
ARGO 4,11,20,351
assimilation 3, 19,22,33,35,43,49,73,
93, 97, 108, 112, 115, 117, 118,
122,125,131,144,204,209,
216,224,232,234,277,281,
289,291,300,308,324,333,
335, 339,348,352,358,370,
376
atmospheric data assimilation 73
atmospheric water vapour 20
AUV, Autonomous Underwater
Vehicles 202,351
Azores VPE 392,400, 409, 423
B
background
- covariance 74
- error variances 283
bacteria 373
BALTEX 195
Baltic Sea 195, 231
baroclinic 27,28,69,118,136,183,203,
232,259,289,364
- life-cycles 13 1
barotropic 27,28,34,55, 136, 183, 185,
203,231,261,289,295,303,
326,361
basic state 13 3, 141
bathymetry 58, 202, 213, 248, 255, 363,
365
Bayes' theorem 75,76
- discrete 85
Bayesian analysis 76, 78
Bermuda Testbed Mooring 351
Best Analysis 87
467
biological primitive equations 377,380,
384,413
biological tracers 254
biomass simulation 373
BLI, Biological Lagrangian
Integration 378,381,385,427
BOFS, Biogeochemical Ocean Flux
Study 243
bottom
- boundary layer 55,203,358
- pressure 119
- stress 363
- torque 121
- vertical boundary conditions 363
Bryan-Cox model 55
butterfly problem 131
C
Caesium 137 251
Canonical Correlation Analysis 161,334
climate drift 323
coastal bathymetric evolution 255
coastal marine predictions 340
coasta! monitoring 8, 357
coastal scale models 360
competition 343,398,405,412,427
Complex Adaptive Systems 380
computational
- instability 183
- mode 187
contaminant mixing 245
convergence ofthe assimilation 122
coordinate systcm 57,71,286,364
corrector step 191
correlation 80,283,291,314,328,332
correlation error 327
correlation function 74, 83,288
coupled mode 170
coupled models 141, 158,255,308,320,
322,334
coupled ocean-atmosphere 34,154,155,
159,176,307,316,348,353