STUDIES OF TECHNIQUES FOR THE ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION OF TEMPERATURE IN THE OCEAN. PART VI. TRANSLATION OF ASYNOPTIC DATA.
Abstract
For sea surface temperature analysis, multi-day samples of data are often used for a single analysis to increase data density to a meaningful value. The movement of meanders in the temperature field during the data period reduces the accuracy of the resulting analysis. Two techniques, one empirical and the other dynamical, have been devised and tested to modify the data for meander movement. The data are physically translated by the large scale flow in which they are embedded to new locations. The amount of translation depends on the local flow strength and the time interval between the observation time and an arbitrarily defined reference time. The process results in a quasi-synoptic set of data. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0675515
Entities
People
- Albert Thomasell Jr.
- James G. Welsh