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TI Combining Argo profiles with a general circulation model in the North Atlantic. Part 2: Realistic transports and improved hydrography, between spring 2002 and spring 2003
BT 
AF FORGET, Gael
   MERCIER, Herle
   FERRON, Bruno
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C1 MIT, Dept Earth Atmospher & Planetary Sci, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA.
   CNRS Ifremer UBO, UMR 6523, Lab Phys Oceans, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
C2 MIT, USA
   CNRS, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
SI BREST
SE PDG-DOP-DCB-OPS-LPO
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 2.225
TC 13
TU Centre national de la recherche scientifique
   Institut de recherche pour le développement
   Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer
   Université de Bretagne Occidentale
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2008/publication-3920.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR OVIDE 1
BO Thalassa
DE ;General circulation model;Argo;In situ observations;4DVAR;Data assimilation
AB A set of Argo profiles collected in the North Atlantic between May 2002 and April 2003 is combined with a low-resolution general circulation model (GCM) using the adjoint method. Fitting the real hydrographic observations leads to vast improvements in the model circulation., including the sea surface height and the meridional heat transport. We find striking differences in basin-scale transports compared with previous assimilation experiments that use the same GCM and a similar spatial resolution. Based on forward modeling studies, it is argued that these differences are due to different assimilation experiment durations. Over 1 year, the hydrography interpolated with the GCM from Argo profiles better represents the contemporary structures than does a long-term averaged climatology. The GCM dynamics are robust enough to distinguish between contemporary hydrography and climatological hydrography.
PY 2008
SO Ocean Modelling
SN 1463-5003
PU Elsevier
VL 20
IS 1
UT 000253019300002
BP 17
EP 34
DI 10.1016/j.ocemod.2007.06.002
ID 3920
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