GECCO

Area: Quasi-global

Period: 1952-2001

Data available: YES

Model: MITgcm
Resolution: Horizontal 1°x1° Vertical 23 levels
Data assimilated: CTD, MBT/XBT, Argo, TOGA/TAO,T/P-ERS- ENVISAT,Jason, AMSR/E/TMI SST, Quicksact, mean surface drifter velocity, GRACE SSH, Levitus (1994) NCEP RA1
Assimilation method: 4D-VAR (adjoint) method controlling the T/S initial conditions and ten daily air-sea fluxes (heat, fresh water, and momentum fluxes)
Forcing and relaxation used: Daily forcing (twice a day wind) for first guess momentum, net heat , shortwave heat and fresh water fluxes from NCEP-1. No relaxation used.
Download Data: OPeNDAP / HTTP at ICDC, FTP at ICDC, View in LAS at ICDC
Contact: Armin Köhl, armin.koehl (at) uni-hamburg.de
References: Köhl A. and D. Stammer (2008), Variability of the Meridional Overturning in the North Atlantic from the 50 years GECCO State Estimation, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 38, 1913-1930.
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