Gallery: Sea Surface Salinity in the North Atlantic Ocean
optimum interpolation (OI) analysis
of Aquarius Version 4 sea surface salinity data for the North Atlantic Ocean. This analysis is intended to
reduce the long-wavelength, inter-beam and ascending-descending biases which have been present in Aquarius data, as well as improve the
accuracy of surface salinity maps in the SPURS region.
Weekly OI sea surface data (netCDF files) can be downloaded from the International Pacific Research Center here.
Images are provided by Oleg Melnichenko, Assistant Researcher at the International Pacific Research Center, located within the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Melnichenko, O., Hacker, P., Maximenko, N., Lagerloef, G., and Potemra, J. (2014). Spatial Optimal Interpolation of Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity: Algorithms and Implementation in the North Atlantic, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00241.1.
These weekly gridded maps are based on the Weekly OI sea surface data (netCDF files) can be downloaded from the International Pacific Research Center here.
Images are provided by Oleg Melnichenko, Assistant Researcher at the International Pacific Research Center, located within the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
December 27, 2011 | December 20, 2011 | December 13, 2011 | December 6, 2011 | |||
November 29, 2011 | November 22, 2011 | November 15, 2011 | November 8, 2011 | |||
November 1, 2011 | October 25, 2011 | October 18, 2011 | October 11, 2011 | |||
October 4, 2011 | September 27, 2011 | September 20, 2011 | September 13, 2011 | |||
September 6, 2011 |
Publications
Melnichenko, O., Hacker, P., Maximenko, N., Lagerloef, G., and Potemra, J. (2014). Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity Optimal Interpolation Analysis, IPRC Technical Note No. 6. Melnichenko, O., Hacker, P., Maximenko, N., Lagerloef, G., and Potemra, J. (2014). Spatial Optimal Interpolation of Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity: Algorithms and Implementation in the North Atlantic, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00241.1.