“…Although recent in place and are in the process of being evaluated. measurements (Sheinbaum et al, 2002) suggest the value These techniques are, ordered by degree of sophistimay be lower than this, 28 Sv is consistent with the more cation, the NRL Coupled Ocean Data Assimilation extensively observed transport through the Florida Straits (NCODA), the Singular Evolutive Extended Kalman at 27'N (Baringer and Larsen, 2001;Johns et al, 2002 presently being considered as the next generation data It mostly differs from the system described in Section 4 in assimilation to be used in the near real-time system. two ways: (a) different horizontal grid and (b) NCEPThe remaining techniques, because of their cost, are based wind and thermal forcing.…”