Impact of data assimilation on Eulerian versus Lagrangian estimates of upper ocean transport

Sperrevik, Ann Kristin; Rohrs, Johannes; Christensen, Kai Hakon

doi:10.1002/2016JC012640

Title: Impact of data assimilation on Eulerian versus Lagrangian estimates of upper ocean transport

Journal Article · Fri Jun 09 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Journal of Geophysical Research. Oceans

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JC012640· OSTI ID:1461513

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Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo (Norway)

Using four-dimensional variational analysis, we produce an estimate of the state of a coastalregion in Northern Norway during the late winter and spring in 1984. We use satellite sea surface tempera-ture and in situ observations from a series of intensive field campaigns, and obtain a more realistic distribu-tion of water masses both in the horizontal and the vertical than a pure downscaling approach can achieve.Although the distribution of Eulerian surface current speeds are similar, we find that they are more variableand less dependent on model bathymetry in our reanalysis compared to a hindcast produced using thesame modeling system. Furthermore, Lagrangian drift currents on the other hand are significantly changed, with overallhigher kinetic energy levels in the reanalysis than in the hindcast, particularly in the superinertial frequencyband.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

OSTI ID:: 1461513

Journal Information:: Journal of Geophysical Research. Oceans, Vol. 122, Issue 7; ISSN 2169-9275

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