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Ocean Data Analysis/Reanalysis

Major global ocean data analysis/reanalysis activities

Projects
Sponsoring Agency
Model
Primary Goal
NOPP (NASA, NOAA, NSF)

MITOGCM, near-global,1 - 0.3 , 23-46 levels

Climate research
NASA
MITO GCM, global, coupled to sea ice model; 1/6 - 1/8, 50 levels
Climate research
NSF, NASA
POP, global, 0.4-0.25, 50 levels
Climate research
NOAA
MOM3, near global, 1-0.3, 40 levels
Initialization of operational ENSO forecasts
NOAA
MOM4, near global, 1-0.3, 50 levels
Climate research, initialization of coupled model
NASA
Poseidon quasi-isopyncal model, near global, 5/8 x 1/3, 27 layers
Climate research, initialization of coupled model
NOPP (ONR, NOAA)
Hybrid coordinate model, global, 1/12, 26 layers
Mesoscale ocean nowcast; Navy operation

 

Project
Data Assimilated
Assimilation Method
Product Availability
Most satellite & in-situ data Kalman filter/smoother; adjoint (4DVAR) 1992 - present (both for adjoint and KF); ECCO servers
Starte with satellite SSH, SST, wind & in-situ T profiles Greens Function; adjoint Not yet available
T & S profiles, satellite SSH & SST Optimal interpolation 1940s-present UM IRI, IPRC servers
T profiles, satellite SSH & SST 3DVAR 1980 - present
T profiles, satellite SSH & SST 3DVAR 1980 - present; GFDL server
T & S profiles, satellite SSH & SST 3dVAR; ensemble Kalman filter 1993 - present
Satellite SSH 3DVAR; Kalman filter Global product not yet available

 

In addition, the Naval Research Laboratory has an assimilation project for realtime ocean nowcasting/forecasting.

 

Announcements

U.S. CLIVAR Call for New Working Groups (pdf)

U.S. CLIVAR joint call with Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry Group (OCB) for Working Groups (pdf)

U.S. CLIVAR Summit 2011 presentations online

U.S. CLIVAR Decadal Predictability Working Group publishes paper in BAMS (Feb. 2011, Vol. 92, No. 2)

NCAR Advanced Study Program Summer Colloquium - 6-24 June 2011; Statistical Assessment of Extreme Weather Phenomena under climate Change - presentations online

More Announcements

Science Tidbits    

26 September 2011: Seeking better answers to climate change, extreme weather

20 September 2011: Earth is losing Arctic sea ice: consequences could be global

17 August 2011: Study blames humans for half of recent Arctic ice melt

9 July 2011: Record south-central drought could continue into 2012, National Weather Service predicts

7 July 2011 - US Climate: The New Normal

10 June 2011 - NASA launches Aquarius

 

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