Near Real Time SLA and SST products during 2-years of MFS pilot project: processing, analysis of the variability and of the coupled patterns

Type Article
Date 2003
Language English
Author(s) Buongiorno Nardelli B., Larnicol G., D’acunzo E., Santoleri R., Marullo S., Le Traon Pierre-Yves
Source Annales geophysicae (0992-7689) (European Geosciences Union (EGU)), 2003 , Vol. 21 , P. 103-121
DOI 10.5194/angeo-21-103-2003
Abstract The Near Real Time (NRT) operational products developed from satellite data (AVHRR, Topex/Poseidon, Ers-2) in the framework of the Mediterranean Forecasting System Pilot Project (MFSPP, autumn 1998–autumn 2000) are described and compared to delayed time products over the Mediterranean sea. MFSPP SLA and SST data are then discussed in the general context of the Mediterranean circulation, showing the interannual variability of the fields and identifying recurrent or anomalous features at mesoscale/sub-basin scales. Finally, MFSPP data are used to test, on a regional (Mediterranean) context, a multivariate method to identify coupled modes of variability, consisting in the SVD of the covariance between SST and SLA.
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Buongiorno Nardelli B., Larnicol G., D’acunzo E., Santoleri R., Marullo S., Le Traon Pierre-Yves (2003). Near Real Time SLA and SST products during 2-years of MFS pilot project: processing, analysis of the variability and of the coupled patterns. Annales geophysicae, 21, 103-121. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-21-103-2003 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00084/19480/