Auxiliary Material for Paper 2007JC004548


Application and comparison of Kalman filters for coastal ocean problems: An experiment with FVCOM


Changsheng Chen 
School for Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
Also at Marine Ecosystem and Environmental Laboratory, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China

Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli and Jun Wei
Department of Atmospheric, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Robert C. Beardsley 
Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA

Zhigang Lai and Pengfei Xue 
School for Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA

Sangjun Lyu
Department of Atmospheric, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Qichun Xu, Jianhua Qi, and Geoffrey W. Cowles
School for Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA


Chen, C., P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, J. Wei, R. C. Beardsley, Z. Lai, P. Xue, S. Lyu, Q. Xu, J. Qi, and G. W. Cowles (2009), Application and comparison of Kalman filters for coastal ocean problems: An experiment with FVCOM, J. Geophys. Res., 114, C05011, doi:10.1029/2007JC004548.


1. Introduction 

This auxiliary material includes 1) the text file entitled "Kalman Filters Implemented in FVCOM"; 2) Figure S1: Schematic of the implementation of RRKF into FVCOM  and 3) Figure S2: Schematic of the implementation of EnKF (EnSKF/EnTKF) into FVCOM.

1. 2007jc004548-txts01.tex, 2007jc004548-txts01.pdf
Text S1. Kalman filters implemented in FVCOM.

2. 2007jc004548-fs01.tif
Figure S1. Schematic of the implementation of RRKF into FVCOM.

3. 2007jc004548-fs02.tif
Figure S2. Schematic of the implementation of EnKF (EnSKF/EnTKF) into FVCOM.