ECCO Geometry Parameters for the 0.5 degree Lat-Lon Model Grid (Version 4 Release 4)
(ECCO_L4_GEOMETRY_05DEG_V4R4)Version | V4r4 |
Processing Level | 4 |
Start/Stop Date | 1992-Jan-01 to 2018-Jan-01 |
Short Name | ECCO_L4_GEOMETRY_05DEG_V4R4 |
Description | This dataset provides geometric parameters for the regular 0.5-degree lat-lon grid from the ECCO Version 4 Release 4 (V4r4) ocean and sea-ice state estimate. Parameters include areas and lengths of grid cell sides and the horizontal and vertical coordinates of grid cell centers and corners. Additional information related to the global domain geometry (e.g., bathymetry and land/ocean masks) are also included. However, users should note these domain geometry fields are approximations because they have been interpolated from the ECCO lat-lon-cap 90 (llc90) native model grid. Users interested in exact budget closure calculations for volume, heat, salt, or momentum should use ECCO fields provided on the llc90 grid. Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) state estimates are dynamically and kinematically-consistent reconstructions of the three-dimensional, time-evolving ocean, sea-ice, and surface atmospheric states. ECCO V4r4 is a free-running solution of a global, nominally 1-degree configuration of the MIT general circulation model (MITgcm) that has been fit to observations in a least-squares sense. Observational data constraints used in V4r4 include sea surface height (SSH) from satellite altimeters [ERS-1/2, TOPEX/Poseidon, GFO, ENVISAT, Jason-1,2,3, CryoSat-2, and SARAL/AltiKa]; sea surface temperature (SST) from satellite radiometers [AVHRR], sea surface salinity (SSS) from the Aquarius satellite radiometer/scatterometer, ocean bottom pressure (OBP) from the GRACE satellite gravimeter; sea ice concentration from satellite radiometers [SSM/I and SSMIS], and in-situ ocean temperature and salinity measured with conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensors and expendable bathythermographs (XBTs) from several programs [e.g., WOCE, GO-SHIP, Argo, and others] and platforms [e.g., research vessels, gliders, moorings, ice-tethered profilers, and instrumented pinnipeds]. V4r4 covers the period 1992-01-01T12:00:00 to 2018-01-01T00:00:00. |
DOI | 10.5067/ECG5A-GRD44 |
Measurement | OCEANS > SEA ICE > SEA ICE CONCENTRATION |
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Project | Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) |
Data Provider | Publisher: PO.DAAC Creator: ECCO Consortium, Fukumori, I., Wang, O., Fenty, I., Forget, G., Heimbach, P., & Ponte, R. M. Release Place: PO.DAAC Release Date: 2021-Apr-19 |
Format | netCDF-4 |
Keyword(s) | ECCO, Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, reconstruction, remote sensing, in situ, estimate, ocean, global, model, grid, geometry |
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Resolution Spatial Resolution: 0.5 Decimal Degrees x 0.5 Decimal Degrees Coverage North Bounding Coordinate: 90 degrees South Bounding Coordinate: -90 degrees West Bounding Coordinate: 180 degrees East Bounding Coordinate: -180 degrees Time Span: 1992-Jan-01 to 2018-Jan-01 Projection Projection Type: Cylindrical Lat-Lon Projection Detail: Geolocation information included for each pixel Ellipsoid: WGS84 |
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Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. Please cite the data as follows, and cite the reference papers when it is appropriate.
Citation | ECCO Consortium, Fukumori, I., Wang, O., Fenty, I., Forget, G., Heimbach, P., & Ponte, R. M.. 2021. ECCO Geometry Parameters for the 0.5 degree Lat-Lon Model Grid (Version 4 Release 4). Ver. V4r4. PO.DAAC, CA, USA. Dataset accessed [YYYY-MM-DD] at https://doi.org/10.5067/ECG5A-GRD44
For more information see Data Citations and Acknowledgments.
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Journal Reference | ECCO Consortium, Fukumori, I., Wang, O., Fenty, I., Forget, G., Heimbach, P., & Ponte, R. M.. 2021. Synopsis of the ECCO Central Production Global Ocean and Sea-Ice State Estimate (Version 4 Release 4)., Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3765928 |