ECCO Ocean Velocity - Daily Mean 0.5 Degree (Version 4 Release 4)

Description

This dataset contains daily-averaged ocean velocity interpolated to a regular 0.5-degree grid from the ECCO Version 4 revision 4 (V4r4) ocean and sea-ice state estimate. Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) ocean and sea-ice 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 the 1-degree global 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]. V4r4 covers the period 1992-01-01T12:00:00 to 2018-01-01T00:00:00.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Mission and Instrument Overview https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/ecco
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 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FECG5D-OVE44
21 Python Tutorials for ECCO Central Production Version 4 (ECCO V4) https://ecco-v4-python-tutorial.readthedocs.io/
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://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/misc/web/misc/ecco/docs/v4r4_reproduction_howto.pdf
33 ECCO Version 4 Release 4 User Guide https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/misc/web/misc/ecco/docs/v4r4_user_guide.pdf
33 Synopsis of ECCO Version 4 Release 4 https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/misc/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
33 Sample Plots -- gcmfaces analysis of ECCO V4, Release 4 (1992-2017) https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/misc/web/misc/ecco/docs/v4r4_overview_plots.pdf
22 Thumbnail image for Website https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/ECCO_L4_OCEAN_VEL_05DEG_DAILY_V4R4.jpg
21 Browse granule search results in Earthdata Search https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1990404811-POCLOUD
21 Browse and download granules over HTTPS using the virtual directories service https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C1990404811-POCLOUD/temporal
21 Access the data set landing page for the collection. https://doi.org/10.5067/ECG5D-OVE44

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  • oceans
  • earth-science-services
  • ocean-circulation
  • models
  • earth-science-reanalyses-assimilation-models
  • earth-science

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