The CMCC Eddy-permitting Global Ocean Physical Reanalysis (C-GLORS v5, 1980-2014), links to NetCDF files

• Main Authors: Storto, Andrea, Masina, Simona
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2016
• Subjects: DATE/TIME; File name; File size; Uniform resource locator/link to file; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.857995; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.857995

The CMCC Global Ocean Physical Reanalysis System (C-GLORS) is used to simulate the state of the ocean in the last decades. It consists of a variational data assimilation system (OceanVar), capable of assimilating all in-situ observations along with altimetry data, and a forecast step performed by the ocean model NEMO coupled with the LIM2 sea-ice model. KEY STRENGTHS: - Data are available for a large number of ocean parameters - An extensive validation has been conducted and is freely available - The reanalysis is performed at high resolution (1/4 degree) and spans the last 30 years KEY LIMITATIONS: - Quality may be discontinuos and depend on observation coverage - Uncertainty estimates are simply derived through verification skill scores Note (2017-02-09): C-GLORSv5 is dissemniated on PANGAEA at reduced resolution, i.e. a regular 0.5x0.5 degree grid. For full resolution data sets see "CMCC Global Ocean Reanalysis System (C-GLORS), external website" (Related to:)