Gallery: Sea Surface Salinity in the North Atlantic Ocean
optimum interpolation (OI) analysis
of Aquarius Version 4 sea surface salinity data for the North Atlantic Ocean. This analysis is intended to
reduce the long-wavelength, inter-beam and ascending-descending biases which have been present in Aquarius data, as well as improve the
accuracy of surface salinity maps in the SPURS region.
Weekly OI sea surface data (netCDF files) can be downloaded from the International Pacific Research Center here.
Images are provided by Oleg Melnichenko, Assistant Researcher at the International Pacific Research Center, located within the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Melnichenko, O., Hacker, P., Maximenko, N., Lagerloef, G., and Potemra, J. (2014). Spatial Optimal Interpolation of Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity: Algorithms and Implementation in the North Atlantic, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00241.1.
These weekly gridded maps are based on the Weekly OI sea surface data (netCDF files) can be downloaded from the International Pacific Research Center here.
Images are provided by Oleg Melnichenko, Assistant Researcher at the International Pacific Research Center, located within the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
May 31, 2015 | May 24, 2015 | May 17, 2015 | May 10, 2015 | |||
May 3, 2015 | April 26, 2015 | April 19, 2015 | April 12, 2015 | |||
April 5, 2015 | March 29, 2015 | March 22, 2015 | March 15, 2015 | |||
March 8, 2015 | March 1, 2015 | February 22, 2015 | February 15, 2015 | |||
February 8, 2015 | February 1, 2015 | January 25, 2015 | January 18, 2015 | |||
January 11, 2015 | January 4, 2015 |
Publications
Melnichenko, O., Hacker, P., Maximenko, N., Lagerloef, G., and Potemra, J. (2014). Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity Optimal Interpolation Analysis, IPRC Technical Note No. 6. Melnichenko, O., Hacker, P., Maximenko, N., Lagerloef, G., and Potemra, J. (2014). Spatial Optimal Interpolation of Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity: Algorithms and Implementation in the North Atlantic, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00241.1.