… for optimal drifter deployments. In this work, we investigate a directed drifter deployment
strategy … We test our directed drifter deployment strategy by targeting Lagrangian coherent flow …

… However, the position data from these instruments are typically not … ocean data assimilation
(DA) systems. In this work, the impact of an augmented-state Lagrangian data assimilation (…

… First, as mentioned in Section 4, in situ drifters were primarily deployed north of the wall.
This might cause biases in the estimates of Gulf Stream position and energetics, but very …

… drifter states x D ⁡ [ l ] f associated to a forecasting drifter ID n. The center white triangle is
located at the forecast ensemble mean position of drifter … drifter locations. Those observation …

… evaluate several key assumptions of the ocean data assimilation methodology by utilizing
the rich drifter data set of the Grand Lagrangian Deployment (GLAD). The Consortium for …

… Given this Lagrangian assimilation scheme, we focus on a basic question for operational
scenarios: Considering the expense of deploying observational drifter arrays, can initial drifter …

… data streams to constrain small-scale dynamical features. Here velocity observations from
Lagrangian drifters deployed in … Unfortunately, while numerical models and data assimilation …

… [2] In the last decade, deployment of drifting buoys … data voids occurring during the drifter
history. The comprehensive investigation of optimal sampling for Lagrangian data assimilation …

… The rms prediction errors S for drifters in cluster A using Lagrangian data assimilation with …
In the future, we intend to investigate the problem of optimal sampling for cluster deployments, …

… from both Lagrangian drifters and Eulerian flow sensors were … summarizes our drifter
measurements and data assimilation. … restrictions, our drifters could only be deployed in one …