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1 digital object.

Description

Simulated Argo float trajectories, with advection using velocities from the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II (ECCO2) project.

Creation Date

• 2016 to 2019

Date Issued

• 2019

Authors

• Du, Yan
• Gille, Sarah T.
• Mazloff, Matthew R.
• Wang, Tianyu
• Zilberman, Nathalie

Analyst

• Wang, Tianyu

Thesis Advisor

• Du, Yan

Funding

TW and YD are partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41525019) and the State Oceanic Administration of China (GASI-IPOVAI-02). STG and MRM received support from the National Science Foundation through grants OCE-1234473 and PLR-1425989. NZ was supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant NA14OAR4310219 and by CIMEC grant NA15OAR4320071, which also supports the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's participation in U.S. Argo (NOAA Climate Program Office FundRef number 100007298.

Topics

• Acceleration
• Argo floats
• Circulation
• Currents
• Domain: Earth sciences
• Eddy-mean flow interaction
• Lagrangian motion

Format

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• data

Language

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Identifier

Identifier: Matthew R. Mazloff: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1650-5850

Identifier: Nathalie Zilberman: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5855-1994

Identifier: Sarah T. Gille: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9144-4368

Related Resources

Primary associated publication

• Wang, Tianyu; Gille, Sarah T.; Mazloff, Matthew R.; Zilberman, Nathalie V.; Du, Yan. (2020). Eddy-induced acceleration of Argo floats. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125, e2019JC016042. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC016042

Source data

• Additional background about ECCO is available at: https://ecco-group.org/
• Output from ECCO2 is available from: http://mit.ecco-group.org/datasets/ecco_for_las/data/ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/cube92/
• Output from ECCO2 is available from: https://ecco-group.org/products.htm
• The Argo snapshot data (November 8th 2014) used here were collected and made freely available by the International Argo Program and by the national programs that contribute to it: https://doi.org/10.17882/42182#42281

Software

• Octopus code for the advection scheme is available from: https://github.com/jinbow/Octopus/