A method for determining absolute velocities from hydrographic data: the numerical code

Abstract

The numerical procedure associated with the inverse method of Peggion (1987) is described. The model equations are formulated on a spherical-shell coordinate system. The method is applied to a limited area of the basin of the Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian (GIN) Sea, using climatological and historical data from the Generalized Digital Environmental Model, of the Naval Oceanographic Office,

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