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GODAE systems in operation
During the last 15 years, operational oceanography systems have emerged in several countries
around the world. This emergence has been largely fostered by the GODAE experiment, during
which each nation engaged in this activity have organised partnership and constructive
competition. This trans-national coordination was very beneficial for the development of
operational oceanography, leading to economies of scales and more targeted actions. Today,
several systems provide routine real-time ocean analysis and forecast and/or reanalysis products.
They are all based on (i) state-of-the-art primitive equation baroclinic Ocean General Circulation
Model (OGCM) configurations, either global or regional (basin-scale), with resolutions that
range from coarse to eddy resolving and (ii) data assimilation techniques whose complexity
ranges from simple analysis correction to advanced 4D variational schemes. They assimilate
altimeter sea level anomalies, remotely sensed SST such as GHRSST products and in situ
profiles of T and S, including ARGO. Some systems have implemented downscaling capacities
in specific regions of interest including shelf/coastal seas. Some also have implemented coupling
with the atmosphere and/or the prognostic sea ice in polar regions. They are the GODAE system
in operation. They are reviewed in this paper. The GODAE system discussed here include: (1)
BLUElink OceanMAPS, (2) C-NOOFS, , (3) ECCO, (4) FOAM, (5) HYCOM/NCODA, (6)
MERCATOR, (7) MFS, (8) MOVE/MRI.COM, (9) NLOM/NCOM, (10) NMEFC, (11) RTOFS
and (12) TOPAZ.SubmittedNice, France3.11. Oceanografia Operativaope
GODAE systems in operation
During the last 15 years, operational oceanography systems have emerged in several countries
around the world. This emergence has been largely fostered by the GODAE experiment, during
which each nation engaged in this activity have organised partnership and constructive
competition. This trans-national coordination was very beneficial for the development of
operational oceanography, leading to economies of scales and more targeted actions. Today,
several systems provide routine real-time ocean analysis and forecast and/or reanalysis products.
They are all based on (i) state-of-the-art primitive equation baroclinic Ocean General Circulation
Model (OGCM) configurations, either global or regional (basin-scale), with resolutions that
range from coarse to eddy resolving and (ii) data assimilation techniques whose complexity
ranges from simple analysis correction to advanced 4D variational schemes. They assimilate
altimeter sea level anomalies, remotely sensed SST such as GHRSST products and in situ
profiles of T and S, including ARGO. Some systems have implemented downscaling capacities
in specific regions of interest including shelf/coastal seas. Some also have implemented coupling
with the atmosphere and/or the prognostic sea ice in polar regions. They are the GODAE system
in operation. They are reviewed in this paper. The GODAE system discussed here include: (1)
BLUElink OceanMAPS, (2) C-NOOFS, , (3) ECCO, (4) FOAM, (5) HYCOM/NCODA, (6)
MERCATOR, (7) MFS, (8) MOVE/MRI.COM, (9) NLOM/NCOM, (10) NMEFC, (11) RTOFS
and (12) TOPAZ
On eddy viscosity, energy cascades, and the horizontal resolution of gridded satellite altimeter products
Author Posting. © American Meteorological Society, 2013. This article is posted here by permission of American Meteorological Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Physical Oceanography 43 (2013): 283â300, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-11-0240.1.Motivated by the recent interest in ocean energetics, the widespread use of horizontal eddy viscosity in models, and the promise of high horizontal resolution data from the planned wide-swath satellite altimeter, this paper explores the impacts of horizontal eddy viscosity and horizontal grid resolution on geostrophic turbulence, with a particular focus on spectral kinetic energy fluxes Î (K) computed in the isotropic wavenumber (K) domain. The paper utilizes idealized two-layer quasigeostrophic (QG) models, realistic high-resolution ocean general circulation models, and present-generation gridded satellite altimeter data. Adding horizontal eddy viscosity to the QG model results in a forward cascade at smaller scales, in apparent agreement with results from present-generation altimetry. Eddy viscosity is taken to roughly represent coupling of mesoscale eddies to internal waves or to submesoscale eddies. Filtering the output of either the QG or realistic models before computing Î (K) also greatly increases the forward cascade. Such filtering mimics the smoothing inherent in the construction of present-generation gridded altimeter data. It is therefore difficult to say whether the forward cascades seen in present-generation altimeter data are due to real physics (represented here by eddy viscosity) or to insufficient horizontal resolution. The inverse cascade at larger scales remains in the models even after filtering, suggesting that its existence in the models and in altimeter data is robust. However, the magnitude of the inverse cascade is affected by filtering, suggesting that the wide-swath altimeter will allow a more accurate determination of the inverse cascade at larger scales as well as providing important constraints on smaller-scale dynamics.BKA received support from Office of Naval
Research Grant N00014-11-1-0487, National Science
Foundation (NSF) Grants OCE-0924481 and OCE-
09607820, and University of Michigan startup funds.
KLP acknowledges support from Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution bridge support funds. RBS acknowledges
support from NSF grants OCE-0960834 and
OCE-0851457, a contract with the National Oceanography
Centre, Southampton, and a NASA subcontract
to Boston University. JFS and JGR were supported by
the projects ââGlobal and remote littoral forcing in
global ocean modelsââ and ââAgesotrophic vorticity dynamics
of the ocean,ââ respectively, both sponsored by
the Office of Naval Research under program element 601153N.2013-08-0
Effects of stencil width on surface ocean geostrophic velocity and vorticity estimation from gridded satellite altimeter data
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Effects of stencil width on surface ocean geostrophic velocity and vorticity estimation from gridded satellite altimeter data
This paper examines the effect of âstencil widthâ on surface ocean geostrophic velocity and vorticity estimated from differentiating gridded satellite altimeter sea surface height products. In oceanographic applications, the value of the first derivative at a central grid point is generally obtained by differencing the sea surface heights at adjacent grid points. This is called a âthree-point stencil centered differenceâ. Here the stencil width is increased from three to five, seven, and nine points, using well-known formulae from the numerical analysis literature. The discrepancies between velocities computed with successive stencils decreases with increasing stencil width, suggesting that wide stencil results are more reliable. Significant speed-dependent biases (up to 10â20%) are found between results computed from three-point stencils versus those computed from wider stencils. The geostrophic velocity, and the variance of geostrophic velocity, are underestimated with thin stencils. Similar results are seen in geostrophic velocities computed from high-resolution model output. In contrast to the case when three-point stencils are used, wider stencils yield estimates of the anisotropy of velocity variance that are insensitive to the differences in grid spacing between two widely used altimeter products. Three-point stencils yield incorrect anisotropies on the 1/4° anisotropic AVISO grid; we recommend the use of 7-point stencils. Despite the demonstrated inadequacies of the three-point stencils, the conclusions of earlier studies based on them, that the zonally averaged midlatitude eddy kinetic energy field is nearly isotropic, are found to pertain also with wider stencils. Finally, the paper also examines the strengths and limitations of applying noise-suppressing differentiators, versus classic centered differences, to altimeter data