A new global ocean hydrographic climatology

This report describes the main features of the recently published World Ocean Experiment–Argo Global Hydrographic Climatology. This climatology is based on profile data from ships, Argo floats, and sensors attached to marine mammals. As an important deviation from the widely used climatologies produ...

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Main Author: Viktor GOURETSKI
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2019-05-01
Series:Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16742834.2019.1588066
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Summary:This report describes the main features of the recently published World Ocean Experiment–Argo Global Hydrographic Climatology. This climatology is based on profile data from ships, Argo floats, and sensors attached to marine mammals. As an important deviation from the widely used climatologies produced previously by the National Oceanographic Data Center, the spatial interpolation was performed on local potential density surfaces, so that no ‘artificial water masses’ were created. In addition to monthly fields of temperature and salinity, gridded maps of the upper mixed layer depth are now provided.
ISSN:1674-2834
2376-6123