Development of a Global Hydrographic Climatology with High Quality Arctic Data

• Main Author: Steele, Michael
• Other Authors: WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE APPLIED PHYSICS LAB
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Meteorology; Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Hydrology; Limnology and Potamology; *ARCTIC OCEAN; *CLIMATOLOGY; *HYDROGRAPHY; COMPUTER FILES; FORECASTING; NUMERICAL METHODS AND PROCEDURES; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE; VALIDATION; GLOBAL HYDROGRAPHIC CLIMATOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; ICE PREDICTION SYSTEM 3.0; PHC(POLAR SCIENCE CENTER HYDROGRAPHIC CLIMATOLOGY); ARCTIC DATA SETS; AOA(ARCTIC OCEAN ATLAS); WOA98(WORLD OCEAN ATLAS 1998 VERSION); Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Polar Science Center
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA626104; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA626104

Our long-term goal is to better represent the Arctic Ocean in numerical models. In order to validate these models, we need high quality gridded fields of observed quantities such as ocean temperature and salinity. Both the historical mean and the historical variance are required. We then need to discover where and when the models diverge from the observations. Armed with this knowledge, we can proceed to make improvements that will assist the Navy with their forecasting mission.