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A daily global mesoscale ocean eddy dataset from satellite altimetry
Mesoscale ocean eddies are ubiquitous coherent rotating structures of water with radial scales on the order of 100 kilometers. Eddies play a key role in the transport and mixing of momentum and tracers across the World Ocean. We present a global daily mesoscale ocean eddy dataset that contains ~45 m...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4460914/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26097744 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2015.28 |
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author | Faghmous, James H. Frenger, Ivy Yao, Yuanshun Warmka, Robert Lindell, Aron Kumar, Vipin |
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description | Mesoscale ocean eddies are ubiquitous coherent rotating structures of water with radial scales on the order of 100 kilometers. Eddies play a key role in the transport and mixing of momentum and tracers across the World Ocean. We present a global daily mesoscale ocean eddy dataset that contains ~45 million mesoscale features and 3.3 million eddy trajectories that persist at least two days as identified in the AVISO dataset over a period of 1993–2014. This dataset, along with the open-source eddy identification software, extract eddies with any parameters (minimum size, lifetime, etc.), to study global eddy properties and dynamics, and to empirically estimate the impact eddies have on mass or heat transport. Furthermore, our open-source software may be used to identify mesoscale features in model simulations and compare them to observed features. Finally, this dataset can be used to study the interaction between mesoscale ocean eddies and other components of the Earth System. |
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spelling | pubmed-44609142015-06-19 A daily global mesoscale ocean eddy dataset from satellite altimetry Faghmous, James H. Frenger, Ivy Yao, Yuanshun Warmka, Robert Lindell, Aron Kumar, Vipin Sci Data Data Descriptor Mesoscale ocean eddies are ubiquitous coherent rotating structures of water with radial scales on the order of 100 kilometers. Eddies play a key role in the transport and mixing of momentum and tracers across the World Ocean. We present a global daily mesoscale ocean eddy dataset that contains ~45 million mesoscale features and 3.3 million eddy trajectories that persist at least two days as identified in the AVISO dataset over a period of 1993–2014. This dataset, along with the open-source eddy identification software, extract eddies with any parameters (minimum size, lifetime, etc.), to study global eddy properties and dynamics, and to empirically estimate the impact eddies have on mass or heat transport. Furthermore, our open-source software may be used to identify mesoscale features in model simulations and compare them to observed features. Finally, this dataset can be used to study the interaction between mesoscale ocean eddies and other components of the Earth System. Nature Publishing Group 2015-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4460914/ /pubmed/26097744 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2015.28 Text en Copyright © 2015, Macmillan Publishers Limited http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Metadata associated with this Data Descriptor is available at http://www.nature.com/sdata/ and is released under the CC0 waiver to maximize reuse. |
spellingShingle | Data Descriptor Faghmous, James H. Frenger, Ivy Yao, Yuanshun Warmka, Robert Lindell, Aron Kumar, Vipin A daily global mesoscale ocean eddy dataset from satellite altimetry |
title | A daily global mesoscale ocean eddy dataset from satellite altimetry |
title_full | A daily global mesoscale ocean eddy dataset from satellite altimetry |
title_fullStr | A daily global mesoscale ocean eddy dataset from satellite altimetry |
title_full_unstemmed | A daily global mesoscale ocean eddy dataset from satellite altimetry |
title_short | A daily global mesoscale ocean eddy dataset from satellite altimetry |
title_sort | daily global mesoscale ocean eddy dataset from satellite altimetry |
topic | Data Descriptor |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4460914/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26097744 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2015.28 |
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