Observations¶
A variety of observational datasets are used within MPAS-Analysis:
Ocean Observations¶
Observational Dataset |
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Data available upon request from Dr. Kevin Trenberth |
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2005-2010 climatology from SOSE the Southern Ocean State Estimate (SOSE) |
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Sea Ice Observations¶
Observational Dataset |
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Details on Each Data Set¶
- SST merged Hadley Center-NOAA/OI data set
- SSS from NASA Aquarius satellite
- WOA18 Temperature and Salinity Climatology
- AVISO Absolute Dynamic Topography
- Argo Mixed Layer Depth (MLD) climatology
- Meridional Heat Transport (MHT)
- Roemmich-Gilson Argo Climatology
- 2005-2010 climatology from SOSE the Southern Ocean State Estimate (SOSE)
- Antarctic melt rates and fluxes
- HadISST Nino 3.4 Index
- ERS SSTv4 Nino 3.4 Index
- Antarctic Seafloor Temperature and Salinity
- WOCE sections
- World Ocean Atlas v2
- Landschuetzerv2016 SOM-FFN
- SeaWiFS
- GLODAPv2
- Surface Current Variance from Drifter Data
- Ice concentration: SSM/I, NASATeam algorithm
- Ice concentration: SSM/I, Bootstrap algorithm
- Ice area and extent time series: SSM/I derived
- IceSat Ice Thickness
- PIOMAS Arctic Sea Ice Volume Reanalysis
- Iceberg Concentration: Altiberg