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Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean

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ECCO's overall goal is to bring ocean state estimation from it's experimental status to that of a practical and quasi operational tool for studying large- scale ocean dynamics, designing observational strategies, and examining the ocean's role in climate variability.

Description

Their technical goal is the sustained production and evaluation of ... continuing three-dimensional estimates of the global state of the ocean in near-real time in support programs such as GODAE and CLIVAR.

The main task is to bring together a global GCM with existing global data streams - including TOPEX/POSEIDON and JASON altimeter observations and in situ hydrographic and flow measurements such as what will be available from the ARGO program - to obtain the best possible estimate of the time evolving ocean circulation and related uncertainties.

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  • ecco-group.org /products.htm ↗

    The products are freely available through several applications. However, we ask that all users of these product use the following standard acknowledgment: The state estimates were provided by the ECCO

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Documentation and papers

Catalogue records · 2

Topics

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Climate change science 74%
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