A Consortium for Ocean Circulation and Climate Estimation

Abstract

Our goal was to bring ocean state estimation from its early experimental status to a practical and quasi-operational tool for studying large-scale ocean dynamics, for designing observational strategies and for examining the ocean's role in climate variability. Our central technical goal was a complete global-scale ocean state estimation over at least the 15 year period 1985-2000 at 1140 resolution with a complete error description and regional refinements to support CLIVAR and GODAE needs. For that purpose we intended to combine all available large-scale data sets - including TOPEX/POSEIDON, TOGA-TAO, high-resolution VOS xBT/XCTD, profiling floats, and drifters - with the dynamics embodied in a general circulation model to estimate the time-evolving, three-dimensional physical state of the full oceanic circulation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 15, 2005
Accession Number
ADA441744

Entities

People

  • Detlef Stammer

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Angular Momentum
  • Climate Change
  • Data Sets
  • Earth Sciences
  • Geography
  • Heat Flux
  • High Resolution
  • Measurement
  • North America
  • Ocean Currents
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Sea Water
  • Space Sciences
  • Topography
  • Wind Stress

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Software Engineering