Tomography data assimilation in an ocean general circulation model of the Mediterranean Sea

Author

Van Den Berghe, François ; Gaillard, Fabienne ; Stephan, Yann

Author_Institution

CETIIS, Ivry-sur-Seine, France

Volume

2

fYear

1994

fDate

13-16 Sep 1994

Abstract

Ocean acoustic tomography is a technique for observing the dynamic behaviour of ocean processes by measuring the changes in travel time of acoustic signal transmitted over a number of ocean paths. Its ability for large scale integrated measurements makes tomography a candidate for a permanent and continuous observational network for monitoring oceanic circulation at basin scale. However the use of tomography data in studies involving numerical modelling raises several theoretical and practical difficulties. The variational approach is proposed to assimilate the tomography data collected during the THETIS experiments in the primitive equation model of the western Mediterranean Sea within the EUROMODEL project

Keywords

acoustic tomography; oceanographic regions; oceanographic techniques; oceanography; EUROMODEL; GCM; Mediterranean Sea; THETIS experiments; acoustic propagation; acoustic tomography; assimilate; circulation; data assimilation; modelling; monitoring; numerical model; observational network; ocean dynamics measurement technique; ocean general circulation model; primitive equation model; underwater sound; variational approach; Acoustic measurements; Data assimilation; Large scale integration; Monitoring; Numerical models; Oceans; Sea measurements; Signal processing; Time measurement; Tomography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '94. 'Oceans Engineering for Today's Technology and Tomorrow's Preservation.' Proceedings

Conference_Location

Brest

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2056-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.1994.364119

Filename

364119