ECCO-SIO

Area: Quasi-Global

Period: 1992-2002

Data available: YES

Model: MITgcm
Resolution: 1°
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 two 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., B. Cornuelle, and D. Stammer (2007). Interannual to Decadal Changes in the ECCO Global Synthesis, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 37, 313-337
Information: ecco.ucsd.edu