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TI World Ocean Circulation Experiment - Argo Global Hydrographic Climatology
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AF GOURETSKI, Viktor
AS 1:1;
FF 1:;
C1 Univ Hamburg, Integrated Climate Data Ctr, Ctr Earth Syst Res & Sustainabil, Grindelberg 5, D-20144 Hamburg, Germany.
C2 UNIV HAMBURG, GERMANY
IN DOAJ
IF 2.539
TC 37
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00675/78680/80880.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00675/78680/80882.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR OISO - OCÉAN INDIEN SERVICE D'OBSERVATION
AB The paper describes the new gridded World Ocean Circulation Experiment-Argo Global Hydrographic Climatology (WAGHC). The climatology has a 1/4 degrees spatial resolution resolving the annual cycle of temperature and salinity on a monthly basis. Two versions of the climatology were produced and differ with respect to whether the spatial interpolation was performed on isobaric or isopycnal surfaces, respectively. The WAGHC climatology is based on the quality controlled temperature and salinity profiles obtained before January 2016, and the average climatological year is in the range from 2008 to 2012. To avoid biases due to the significant step-like decrease of the data below 2 km, the profile extrapolation procedure is implemented. We compare the WAGHC climatology to the 1/4 degrees resolution isobarically averaged WOA13 climatology, produced by the NOAA Ocean Climate Laboratory (Locarnini et al., 2013) and diagnose a generally good agreement between these two gridded products. The differences between the two climatologies are basically attributed to the interpolation method and the considerably extended data basis. Specifically, the WAGHC climatology improved the representation of the thermohaline structure, in both the data poor polar regions and several data abundant regions like the Baltic Sea, the Caspian sea, the Gulf of California, the Caribbean Sea, and the Weddell Sea. Further, the dependence of the ocean heat content anomaly (OHCA) time series on the baseline climatology was tested. Since the 1950s, both of the baseline climatologies produce almost identical OHCA time series. The gridded dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/WAGHC_V1.0 (Gouretski, 2018). 
PY 2018
PD SEP
SO Ocean Science
SN 1812-0784
PU Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh
VL 14
IS 5
UT 000445831400001
BP 1127
EP 1146
DI 10.5194/os-14-1127-2018
ID 78680
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