Combining altimetric height with broadscale profile data to estimate steric height, heat storage, subsurface temperature, and sea-surface temperature variability

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Willis, Josh K ^a   Roemmich, Dean ^a   Cornuelle, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Interannual variability; Ocean; TOPEX; XBT

Indexed keywords

HEAT BALANCE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

(SOUTHWEST); PACIFIC OCEAN; TASMAN SEA;

EID: 0346264700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jc001755     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Antonov, J., S. Levitus, T. P. Boyer, M. Conkright, T. O'Brien, and C. Stephens, Temperature of the Atlantic/Pacific/Indian Ocean, World Ocean Atlas 1998, vols. 1-3, NOAA Atlas NESDIS 27, 1998.
2. Boyer, T. P., S. Levitus, J. Antonov, M. Conkright, T. O'Brien, and C. Stephens, Salinity of the Atlantic/Pacific/Indian Ocean, World Ocean Atlas 1998, vols. 4-6, NOAA Atlas NESDIS 30, 1998.
3. Bretherton, F., R. Davis, and C. Fandry, A technique for objective analysis and design of oceanographic experiments applied to MODE-73, Deep Sea Res. Oceanogr. Abstr., 23, 558-559, 1976.
4. Ducet, N., P.-Y. Le Traon, and G. Reverdin, Global high resolution mapping of ocean circulation from TOPEX/Poseidon and ERS-1 and -2,J. Geophys. Res., 105, 19,477-19,498, 2000.
5. Gilson, J., D. Roemmich, and B. Cornuelle, Relationship of TOPEX/ Poseidon altimetric height to steric height and circulation in the North Pacific, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 27,947-27,965, 1998.
6. Hanawa, K., P. Rual, R. Bailey, A. Sy, and M. Szabados, A new depth-time equation for Sippican or TSK T-7, T-6, and T-4 expendable bathythermographs (XBT), Deep Sea Res., Part 1, 42, 1423-1451, 1995.
7. Maes, C., and D. Behringer, Using satellite-derived sea level and temperature profiles for determining the salinity variability: A new approach, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 8537-8547, 2000.
8. Reynolds, R. W., and T. M. Smith, Improved global sea surface temperature analyses using optimum interpolation, J. Clim., 7, 929-948, 1994.
9. Smeed, D. A., and S. G. Alderson, Inference of deep ocean structure from upper ocean measurements, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 14, 604-665, 1997.
10. Stammer, D., Global characteristics of ocean variability estimated from regional TOPEX/POSEIDON altimeter measurements, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 27, 1743-1769, 1997.
11. White, W., and C.-K. Tai, Inferring interannual changes in global upper ocean heat storage from TOPEX altimetry, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 24,943-24,954, 1995.
12. Wunsch, C., and D. Stammer, The global frequency-wave-number spectrum of oceanic variability estimated from TOPEX/Poseidon altimetric measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 24,895-24,910, 1995.
13. Zang, X., and C. Wunsch, Spectral description of low-frequency oceanic variability, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 31, 3073-3095, 2001.