World Ocean Isopycnal Level Absolute Geostrophic Velocity (WOIL-V) Inverted from GDEM with the P-Vector Method

Peter C. Chu
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Peter C. Chu: Naval Ocean Analysis and Prediction (NOAP) Laboratory, Department of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943, USA

Data, 2018, vol. 3, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Three-dimensional dataset of world ocean climatological annual and monthly mean absolute geostrophic velocity in isopycnal level (called WOIL-V) has been produced from the United States (U.S.) Navy’s Generalized Digital Environmental Model (GDEM) temperature and salinity fields (open access from the website http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.nodc:9600094 ) using the P-vector method. The data have horizontal resolution of 0.5° × 0.5°, and 222 isopycnal-levels. The total 13 data files include annual and monthly mean values. The WOIL-V is the only dataset of absolute geostrophic velocity in isopycnal level compatible to the GDEM ( T , S ) fields, and provides background ocean currents for oceanographic and climatic studies, especially in ocean modeling with the isopycnal coordinate system.

Keywords: isopycnal level; world ocean geostrophic velocity; GDEM; P-vector method; climatology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C8 C80 C81 C82 C83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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