ECCO Sea Surface Height - Monthly Mean llc90 Grid (Version 4 Release 4b)
(ECCO_L4_SSH_LLC0090GRID_MONTHLY_V4R4B)| Version | V4r4b |
| Processing Level | 4 |
| Start/Stop Date | 1992-Jan-01 to 2018-Jan-01 |
| Short Name | ECCO_L4_SSH_LLC0090GRID_MONTHLY_V4R4B |
| Description | This dataset provides monthly-averaged dynamic sea surface height and model sea level anomaly on the native Lat-Lon-Cap 90 (LLC90) model grid from the ECCO Version 4 Release 4b (V4r4b) ocean and sea-ice state estimate. V4r4b is an errata for ECCO Version 4, Release 4 (V4r4). Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) ocean and sea-ice state estimates are dynamically and kinematically-consistent reconstructions of the three-dimensional time-evolving ocean, sea-ice, and surface atmospheric states. ECCO V4r4b is a free-running solution of the 1-degree global configuration of the MIT general circulation model (MITgcm) that has been fit to observations in a least-squares sense. Observational data constraints used in V4r4b include sea surface height and model sea level anomaly (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]. V4r4b covers the period 1992-01-01T12:00:00 to 2018-01-01T00:00:00. |
| DOI | 10.5067/ECL5M-SSH4B |
| Measurement | OCEANS > SEA SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY > SEA SURFACE HEIGHT |
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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-Oct-01 |
| Format | netCDF-4 |
| Keyword(s) | ECCO, Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, reconstruction, remote sensing, in situ, estimate, ocean, sea ice, global, surface state, model |
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Resolution Spatial Resolution: 1 Decimal Degrees x 1 Decimal Degrees Temporal Resolution: Monthly - < Annual Coverage Region: GLOBAL OCEAN 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 |
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| Name | Long Name | Unit |
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| ETAN | Model sea level anomaly | m |
| i | grid index in x for variables at tracer and 'v' locations | |
| i_g | grid index in x for variables at 'u' and 'g' locations | |
| j | grid index in y for variables at tracer and 'u' locations | |
| j_g | grid index in y for variables at 'v' and 'g' locations | |
| SSH | Dynamic sea surface height anomaly | m |
| SSHIBC | The inverted barometer (IB) correction to sea surface height due to atmospheric pressure loading | m |
| SSHNOIBC | Sea surface height anomaly without the inverted barometer (IB) correction | m |
| tile | lat-lon-cap tile index | |
| time | center time of averaging period | hours since 1992-01-01T12:00:00 |
| time_bnds | time bounds of averaging period | |
| XC | longitude of tracer grid cell center | degrees_east |
| XC_bnds | longitudes of tracer grid cell corners | |
| XG | longitude of 'southwest' corner of tracer grid cell | degrees_east |
| YC | latitude of tracer grid cell center | degrees_north |
| YC_bnds | latitudes of tracer grid cell corners | |
| YG | latitude of 'southwest' corner of tracer grid cell | degrees_north |
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 Sea Surface Height - Monthly Mean llc90 Grid (Version 4 Release 4 Errata). Ver. V4r4b. PO.DAAC, CA, USA. Dataset accessed [YYYY-MM-DD] at https://doi.org/10.5067/ECL5M-SSH4B
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 |
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