An assessment of deep steric height variability over the global ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Ponte, Rui M ^a  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

CLIMATE PARAMETERS; DEEP OCEAN; GLOBAL OCEAN; HEIGHT ANOMALY; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; LONG-TERM TREND; OCEAN STATE; UPPER OCEAN;

SEA LEVEL;

DEEP SEA; EDDY; GLOBAL OCEAN; LONG-TERM CHANGE; SAMPLING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; TIMESCALE; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857329357     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050681     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Bingham, R. J., and C. W. Hughes (2008), The relationship between sea-level and bottom pressure variability in an eddy permitting ocean model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L03602, doi:10.1029/2007GL032662. (Pubitemid 351492919)
2. Dushaw, B., et al. (2010), A global ocean acoustic observing network, in Proceedings of OceanObs'09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society, vol. 2, edited by J. Hall et al., Eur. Space Agency Publ., WPP-306, doi:10.5270/OceanObs09.cwp.25.
3. Fu, L.-L. (2009), Pattern and velocity of propagation of the global ocean eddy variability, J. Geophys. Res., 114, C11017, doi:10.1029/2009JC005349.
4. Garzoli, S., et al. (2010), Progressing towards global sustained deep ocean observations, in Proceedings of OceanObs'09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society, vol. 2, edited by J. Hall et al., Eur. Space Agency Publ., WPP-306, doi:10.5270/OceanObs09.cwp.34.
5. Llovel, W., S. Guinehut, and A. Cazenave (2010), Regional and interannual variability in sea level over 2002-2009 based on satellite altimetry, Argo float data and GRACE ocean mass, Ocean Dyn., 60, 1193-1204.
6. Menemenlis, D., et al. (2008), ECCO2: High resolution global ocean and sea ice data synthesis, Mercator Ocean Q. Newsl., 31, 13-21.
7. Munk, W. H., and A. M. G. Forbes (1989), Global ocean warming: An acoustic measure?, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 19, 1765-1778.
8. Purkey, S. G., and G. C. Johnson (2010), Warming of global abyssal and deep Southern Ocean waters between the 1990s and 2000s: Contributions to global heat and sea level rise budgets, J. Clim., 23, 6336-6351.
9. Song, Y. T., and F. Colberg (2011), Deep ocean warming assessed from altimeters, Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, in situ measurements, and a non-Boussinesq ocean general circulation model, J. Geo-phys. Res., 116, C02020, doi:10.1029/2010JC006601.
10. Sutton, P., and D. Roemmich (2011), Decadal steric and sea surface height changes in the Southern Hemisphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L08604, doi:10.1029/2011GL046802.
11. Vinogradova, N. T., R. M. Ponte, and D. Stammer (2007), Relation between sea level and bottom pressure and the vertical dependence of oceanic variability, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L03608, doi:10.1029/2006GL028588. (Pubitemid 47277598)
12. von Schuckmann, K., F. Gaillard, and P.-Y. Le Traon (2009), Global hydro-graphic variability patterns during 2003-2008, J. Geophys. Res., 114, C09007, doi:10.1029/2008JC005237.
13. Wiese, D. N., W. M. Folkner, and R. S. Nerem (2009), Alternative mission architectures for a gravity recovery satellite mission, J. Geod., 83, 569-581.
14. Worthington, L. V. (1981), The water masses of the world ocean: Some results of a fine-scale census, in Evolution of Physical Oceanography, edited by B. A. Warren and C. Wunsch, pp. 42-69, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
15. Wunsch, C., R. M. Ponte, and P. Heimbach (2007), Decadal trends in sea level patterns: 1993-2004, J. Clim., 20, 5880-5911.
16. Wunsch, C., P. Heimbach, R. M. Ponte, and I. Fukumori (2009), The global general circulation of the oceans estimated by the ECCO-consortium, Oceanography, 22, 88-103.