Thompson, Keith R.: Recent submissions

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  • The adjoint method of data assimilation used operationally for shelf circulation 

    Griffin, DA, and KR Thompson. 1996. "The adjoint method of data assimilation used operationally for shelf circulation." Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans 101(C2): 3457-3477. DOI:10.1029/95JC03218
    A real-time shelf circulation model with data assimilation has been successfully used, possibly for the first time, on the outer Nova Scotian Shelf, The adjoint method was used to infer the time histories of flows across ...

  • The mean surface circulation of the North Atlantic subpolar gyre: A comparison of estimates derived from new gravity and oceanographic measurements 

    Higginson, S., K. R. Thompson, J. Huang, M. Veronneau, et al. 2011. "The mean surface circulation of the North Atlantic subpolar gyre: A comparison of estimates derived from new gravity and oceanographic measurements." Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans 116: 08016-C08016.DOI:10.1029/2010JC006877
    A new mean sea surface topography (MSST) is used to estimate the surface circulation of the subpolar gyre of the northwest Atlantic. The MSST is produced using a new geoid model derived from a blend of gravity data from ...

  • Predicting mesoscale variability of the North Atlantic using a physically motivated scheme for assimilating altimeter and Argo observations 

    Liu, Yimin, and K. R. Thompson. 2009. "Predicting mesoscale variability of the North Atlantic using a physically motivated scheme for assimilating altimeter and Argo observations." Monthly Weather Review 137(7): 2223-37. doi:10.1175/2008MWR2625.1
    A computationally efficient scheme is described for assimilating sea level measured by altimeters and vertical profiles of temperature and salinity measured by Argo floats. The scheme is based on a transformation of ...

  • The detection of coastal-trapped waves 

    Haines, J. W., K. R. Thompson, and D. P. Wiens. 1991. "The detection of coastal-trapped waves." Journal of Geophysical Research 96: 2593-7. DOI:10.1029/90JC02218
    The authors outline a simple method for estimating the cross-spectral matrix of coastal-trapped wave amplitudes, A, from a set of oceanographic observations. Specifically, they propose that A may be estimated by ...

  • Extraction of tidal streams from a ship-borne acoustic Doppler current profiler using a statistical-dynamical model 

    Dowd, M., and KR Thompson. 1996. "Extraction of tidal streams from a ship-borne acoustic Doppler current profiler using a statistical-dynamical model." Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans 101(C4): 8943-8956. DOI:10.1029/95JC02693
    We present a method for extracting the barotropic tide directly from the time-space series of horizontal velocity obtained by a ship-borne acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP). The method is conceptually straightforward, ...

  • Low-Frequency Fluctuations in the Strait of Gibraltar from Medalpex Sea-Level Data 

    GARRETT, C., J. AKERLEY, and K. THOMPSON. 1989. "Low-Frequency Fluctuations in the Strait of Gibraltar from Medalpex Sea-Level Data." Journal of Physical Oceanography 19(11): 1682-1696. © Copyright 1989 American Meteorological Society (AMS)
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