ECCO Ocean Temperature and Salinity - Monthly Mean 0.5 Degree (Version 4 Release 4)
(ECCO_L4_TEMP_SALINITY_05DEG_MONTHLY_V4R4)| Version | V4r4 |
| Processing Level | 4 |
| Start/Stop Date | 1992-Jan-01 to 2018-Jan-01 |
| Short Name | ECCO_L4_TEMP_SALINITY_05DEG_MONTHLY_V4R4 |
| Description | This dataset contains monthly-averaged ocean potential temperature and salinity interpolated to a regular 0.5-degree grid from the ECCO Version 4 revision 4 (V4r4) ocean and sea-ice state estimate. 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 V4r4 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 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/ECG5M-OTS44 |
| Measurement | MODELS > EARTH SCIENCE REANALYSES/ASSIMILATION MODELS OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY |
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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, sea ice, global, surface state, model |
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Resolution Spatial Resolution: 0.5 Decimal Degrees x 0.5 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 Projection Ellipsoid: WGS 84 |
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| Name | Long Name | Unit |
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| latitude | latitude at grid cell center | degrees_north |
| latitude_bnds | latitude bounds grid cells | |
| longitude | longitude at grid cell center | degrees_east |
| longitude_bnds | longitude bounds grid cells | |
| SALT | Salinity | 1e-3 |
| THETA | Potential temperature | degree_C |
| time | center time of averaging period | hours since 1992-01-01T12:00:00 |
| time_bnds | time bounds of averaging period | |
| Z | depth of grid cell center | m |
| Z_bnds | depths of grid cell upper and lower interfaces |
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 Ocean Temperature and Salinity - Monthly Mean 0.5 Degree (Version 4 Release 4). Ver. V4r4. PO.DAAC, CA, USA. Dataset accessed [YYYY-MM-DD] at https://doi.org/10.5067/ECG5M-OTS44
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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