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Transports and budgets in a 1/4 ° global ocean reanalysis 1989–2010

Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374, Valdivieso, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1738-7016, Zuo, H. and Stepanov, V. N. (2012) Transports and budgets in a 1/4 ° global ocean reanalysis 1989–2010. Ocean Science, 8 (3). pp. 333-344. ISSN 1812-0784

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To link to this item DOI: 10.5194/os-8-333-2012

Abstract/Summary

Large-scale ocean transports of heat and freshwater have not been well monitored, and yet the regional budgets of these quantities are important to understanding the role of the oceans in climate and climate change. In contrast, atmospheric heat and freshwater transports are commonly assessed from atmospheric reanalysis products, despite the presence of non-conserving data assimilation based on the wealth of distributed atmospheric observations as constraints. The ability to carry out ocean reanalyses globally at eddy-permitting resolutions of 1/4 ° or better, along with new global ocean observation programs, now makes a similar approach viable for the ocean. In this paper we examine the budgets and transports within a global high resolution ocean model constrained by ocean data assimilation, and compare them with independent oceanic and atmospheric estimates.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO)
Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Environmental Systems Science Centre
ID Code:28613
Publisher:European Geosciences Union

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