Subject index 229
garbage, 45
Gauss–Markov smoothing, xviii
Gaussian, multivariate, 168
Gaussian, non, xviii
Gaussian (normal) variable, xvii, 38
generalized inverse, 12, 21, 40, 41, 59,
61, 66
condition or stability of, 50
geometical structure, xvii, 32
geoid, 127, 128
geometrical interpretation, 32
geophysical fluid dynamics, xviii, 74, 83
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL),
167
geophysical inverse theory, xvi
geopotential, 120, 142, 158, 177
geostrophy, xvi, xix, 123, 142, 166
global minimum, 15
gradient, 78, 82, 87
information, 18, 85, 90, 91
na¨ıve evaluation, 87
preconditioned conjugate, 146, 166
search, xviii, 78, 82, 84
gravity wave, 79
Green’s function, xix, 8, 10, 12, 21–23, 26, 27, 29,
38, 47, 69, 100
grid, 144
Arakawa C, 197
coarse, 73, 104, 136, 151
fine, 151, 160
spacing in shallow water, 133
Gulf Stream meanders, 143
half-power point, 54
harmonic analysis, 52, 134
heat transfer, turbulent, 80
Heaviside unit step function, 10
Hessian, 78, 92, 93
Hilbert Space, xvii, 32, 33, 46
histogram, 113
Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC), 182
hydrodynamics, xix
hydrography, 24
hydrostatic approximation, xix, 119, 120, 126
hypothesis, xv, 5, 6, 25, 41, 51, 67, 68, 81, 82,
146, 216
null, 3, 37, 42–44, 71, 163
reasonable, 92
rejection, 51, 74
suspect, 41, 82
test, 42,51
ill-conditioned, 4
ill-posed problem, 8, 12, 80, 172
importance sampling, 112, 183
impulse
bare, 19
vector, 95
vector coefficients, 60
incompressible flow, 122, 173
inflow, 176
influence function, xix, 69
inhomogeneity, xiii, 8
initial
condition, xiv, 8, 9, 27, 50, 66, 173, 200
error field, sample, 72
operator, 21, 22
penalty, 17, 18
initial value
boundary-value problem, mixed, xiv, 18
error covariances for inverse estimates, 67
problem, 19
varied independently, 91
inner product, 32, 33, 53
inputs, 4, 5
Institut de M´ecanique de Grenoble (IMG),
133, 136
integrals, convolution-like, 51
interdisciplinary range, xx
interference, constructive, 125
interference, destructive, 125
intermediate model, 5, 114, 156
intermittency, xviii, 105
interpolant, 39, 40, 101
interpolation
bilinear, 156
in measurement, 63
limit of smoothing, 24
optimal, 40, 54, 111
univariate statistical, 148
Inverse Ocean Model (IOM), 171
isobaric coordinate, 118, 121, 177
isopycnal coordinate, 177
isotropic random field, 53
iteration
alternative scheme, 141
heuristic, 77
inner, 63
linearizing, 78
nonlinear least-squares problem, 74
outer, 74, 78
parameter estimation, 169
Scheme A, 76
Scheme B, 77
simple, 81, 141
iterative solver, 61
Jacobian, 140
jet, xviii
jet stream, 145