U.S. GODAE: Sustained Global Ocean State Estimation for Scientific and Practical Application
Abstract
The project's central technical goal is to establish, and to continually improve, a complete global ocean state estimation over the 21-plus-year period from 1985 to present, combining all available large-scale data sets with state-of-the-art general circulation models. Two particular interests define the initial foci: (1) Understanding of processes underlying the seasonal-to-interannual changes of ocean circulation and their use with the estimates and models to predict climate variability. (2) Decadal timescale climate change in the ocean, and its understanding for potential future prediction. Both foci involve developing the tools for generating dynamically and kinematically consistent estimates of the changing oceanic state, so as to include as much of the data, and dynamical understanding as is now available to the oceanographic community. Data from previous and ongoing large-scale ocean observation programs are being used, including WOCE and ARGO, and satellite missions (e.g., TOPEX/POSEIDON, Jason-1, QuikScat, etc.) and will both support and exploit experiments including the Climate Variability and Predictability Program (CLIVAR) and the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA483692
Entities
People
- Carl Wunsch
- David W. Behringer
- Dimitris Menemenlis
- Ichiro Fukumori
- Michele Rienecker
- Rui Ponte
- Tong Lee
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology