Inversetechniqueisawidelyusedmethodinoceanography,butithasaproblemthattheretrievedsolutionsoftenviolatemodelpriorassumptions.Totunethemodelhasconsistentsolutions,aniterationapproach,whichsuccessivelyutilizestheposteriorstatisticsfornextroundinverseestimation,isintroducedandtestedfromarealcasestudy.Itisfoundthattheconsistencymaybecomeelusiveasthedeterminantsofsolutionandnoisecovariancematricesbecomezerointheiterationprocess.However,afterseveralstepsofsuchoperation,thedifferencebetweenposteriorstatisticsandthemodelprioronescanbegraduallyreduced.
