ECCO Ancillary Data (Version 4 Release 4)

Description

This dataset provides ancillary data for the ECCO Version 4 Release 4 (V4r4) ocean and sea-ice state estimate, and is intended for expert users to reproduce the state estimate. The ancillary data include documentation files, files required to initialize the model, forcing fields, binary input grid files, observational data used to constrain the model, model equivalent of observed profiles, files related to atmospheric flux-forced experiments, and some script files. Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) state estimates are dynamically and kinematically-consistent reconstructions of the three-dimensional, time-evolving ocean, sea-ice, and surface atmospheric states. ECCO V4r4 is a free-running solution of a global, nominally 1-degree configuration of the MIT general circulation model (MITgcm) that has been fit to observations in a least-squares sense. Observational data constraints used in V4r4 include sea surface height (SSH) from satellite altimeters [ERS-1/2, TOPEX/Poseidon, GFO, ENVISAT, Jason-1,2,3, CryoSat-2, and SARAL/AltiKa]; sea surface temperature (SST) from satellite radiometers [AVHRR], sea surface salinity (SSS) from the Aquarius satellite radiometer/scatterometer, ocean bottom pressure (OBP) from the GRACE satellite gravimeter; sea ice concentration from satellite radiometers [SSM/I and SSMIS], and in-situ ocean temperature and salinity measured with conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensors and expendable bathythermographs (XBTs) from several programs [e.g., WOCE, GO-SHIP, Argo, and others] and platforms [e.g., research vessels, gliders, moorings, ice-tethered profilers, and instrumented pinnipeds].

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 ECCO Ancillary Data Version 4 Release 4 Documentation Readme https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/ecco/docs/ancillary/README_ancillary_data_doc_ECCO_V4r4.pdf
33 ECCO Ancillary Data Version 4 Release 4 Input Forcing Readme https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/ecco/docs/ancillary/README_ancillary_data_input_forcing_ECCO_V4r4.pdf
33 ECCO Ancillary Data Version 4 Release 4 Data Constraints Readme https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/ecco/docs/ancillary/README_ancillary_data_data_constraints_ECCO_V4r4.pdf
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FECCL4-ANC44
33 Synopsis of ECCO Version 4 Release 4 https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/ecco/docs/v4r4_synopsis.pdf
21 Synopsis of ECCO 'Central Estimate' global ocean and sea-ice state estimate, Version 4 Release 3 https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/110380
21 Data Use and Citation Policy https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC
21 HTTPS endpoint for data browse and download https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C2096684707-POCLOUD
33 ECCO Ancillary Data Version 4 Release 4 Atmospheric Flux Forcing Readme https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/ecco/docs/ancillary/README_ancillary_data_atm_flux_forcing_experiments_ECCO_V4r4.pdf
33 ECCO Ancillary Data Version 4 Release 4 Native Grid Files Readme https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/ecco/docs/ancillary/README_ancillary_data_native_grid_files_ECCO_V4r4.pdf
33 ECCO Ancillary Data Version 4 Release 4 Output In-situ Readme https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/ecco/docs/ancillary/README_ancillary_data_output_insitu_ECCO_V4r4.pdf
21 Mission and Instrument Overview https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/ecco
33 ECCO Ancillary Data Version 4 Release 4 Input Initial Conditions Readme https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/ecco/docs/ancillary/README_ancillary_data_input_init_ECCO_V4r4.pdf
33 ECCO Ancillary Data Version 4 Release 4 Miscellaneous Readme https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/ecco/docs/ancillary/README_ancillary_data_misc_ECCO_V4r4.pdf
21 Browse granule search results in Earthdata Search https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2096684707-POCLOUD
33 ECCO Ancillary Data Version 4 Release 4 Readme https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/ecco/docs/ancillary/README_ancillary_data_ECCO_V4r4.pdf
22 Thumbnail https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/ECCO_L4_ANCILLARY_DATA_V4R4.jpg
21 The project website for the ECCO Consortium https://www.ecco-group.org
21 Software maintained by ECCO Consortium on GitHub https://github.com/ECCO-GROUP/
21 ECCO Version 4 Release 4 model configuration maintained by the ECCO Consortium on GitHub https://github.com/ECCO-GROUP/ECCO-v4-Configurations/tree/master/ECCOv4%20Release%204
33 Instructions for reproducing ECCO Version 4 Release 4 https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/ecco/docs/v4r4_reproduction_howto.pdf
21 Python Tutorials for ECCO Central Production Version 4 (ECCO V4) https://ecco-v4-python-tutorial.readthedocs.io/
33 ECCO Version 4 Release 4 User Guide https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/ecco/docs/v4r4_user_guide.pdf

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  • oceans
  • ocean-circulation
  • earth-science

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