Can we map the interannual variability of the whole upper Southern Ocean with the current database of hydrographic observations?
International audience With the advent of Argo floats, it now seems feasible to study the interannual variations of upper ocean hydrographic properties of the historically undersampled Southern Ocean. To do so, scattered hydrographic profiles often first need to be mapped. To investigate biases and...
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Argo Southern Ocean mapping mixed-layer depth [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography Heuzé, Céline Vivier, Frédéric Le Sommer, Julien Molines, Jean-Marc Penduff, Thierry Can we map the interannual variability of the whole upper Southern Ocean with the current database of hydrographic observations? |
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International audience With the advent of Argo floats, it now seems feasible to study the interannual variations of upper ocean hydrographic properties of the historically undersampled Southern Ocean. To do so, scattered hydrographic profiles often first need to be mapped. To investigate biases and errors associated both with the limited space-time distribution of the profiles and with the mapping methods, we colocate the mixed-layer depth (MLD) output from a state-of-the-art 1/12° DRAKKAR simulation onto the latitude, longitude, and date of actual in situ profiles from 2005 to 2014. We compare the results obtained after remapping using a nearest neighbor (NN) interpolation and an objective analysis (OA) with different spatiotemporal grid resolutions and decorrelation scales. NN is improved with a coarser resolution. OA performs best with low decorrelation scales, avoiding too strong a smoothing, but returns values over larger areas with large decorrelation scales and low temporal resolution, as more points are available. For all resolutions OA represents better the annual extreme values than NN. Both methods underestimate the seasonal cycle in MLD. MLD biases are lower than 10 m on average but can exceed 250 m locally in winter. We argue that current Argo data should not be mapped to infer decadal trends in MLD, as all methods are unable to reproduce existing trends without creating unrealistic extra ones. We also show that regions of the subtropical Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, and the whole ice-covered Southern Ocean, still cannot be mapped even by the best method because of the lack of observational data. |
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Can we map the interannual variability of the whole upper Southern Ocean with the current database of hydrographic observations? |
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Can we map the interannual variability of the whole upper Southern Ocean with the current database of hydrographic observations? |
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Can we map the interannual variability of the whole upper Southern Ocean with the current database of hydrographic observations? |
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Can we map the interannual variability of the whole upper Southern Ocean with the current database of hydrographic observations? |
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Can we map the interannual variability of the whole upper Southern Ocean with the current database of hydrographic observations? |
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can we map the interannual variability of the whole upper southern ocean with the current database of hydrographic observations? |
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ftsorbonneuniv:oai:HAL:insu-01351683v1 2024-05-19T07:48:52+00:00 Can we map the interannual variability of the whole upper Southern Ocean with the current database of hydrographic observations? Heuzé, Céline Vivier, Frédéric Le Sommer, Julien Molines, Jean-Marc Penduff, Thierry Göteborgs Universitet = University of Gothenburg (GU) Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Interactions et Processus au sein de la couche de Surface Océanique (IPSO) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement (LGGE) Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG) Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2015 https://insu.hal.science/insu-01351683 https://insu.hal.science/insu-01351683/document https://insu.hal.science/insu-01351683/file/JOURNAL%20OF%20GEOPHYSICAL%20RESEARCH-OCEANS%20-%20Can%20we%20map%20the%20interannual%20variability%20of%20the%20whole%20upper%20Southern%20Ocean%20with%20the%20current%20database%20of%20hydrographic%20observations.pdf https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JC011115 en eng HAL CCSD Wiley-Blackwell info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1002/2015JC011115 insu-01351683 https://insu.hal.science/insu-01351683 https://insu.hal.science/insu-01351683/document https://insu.hal.science/insu-01351683/file/JOURNAL%20OF%20GEOPHYSICAL%20RESEARCH-OCEANS%20-%20Can%20we%20map%20the%20interannual%20variability%20of%20the%20whole%20upper%20Southern%20Ocean%20with%20the%20current%20database%20of%20hydrographic%20observations.pdf doi:10.1002/2015JC011115 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 2169-9275 EISSN: 2169-9291 Journal of Geophysical Research. Oceans https://insu.hal.science/insu-01351683 Journal of Geophysical Research. Oceans, 2015, 120 (12), pp.7960-7978. ⟨10.1002/2015JC011115⟩ Argo Southern Ocean mapping mixed-layer depth [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2015 ftsorbonneuniv https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JC011115 2024-04-25T04:14:46Z International audience With the advent of Argo floats, it now seems feasible to study the interannual variations of upper ocean hydrographic properties of the historically undersampled Southern Ocean. To do so, scattered hydrographic profiles often first need to be mapped. To investigate biases and errors associated both with the limited space-time distribution of the profiles and with the mapping methods, we colocate the mixed-layer depth (MLD) output from a state-of-the-art 1/12° DRAKKAR simulation onto the latitude, longitude, and date of actual in situ profiles from 2005 to 2014. We compare the results obtained after remapping using a nearest neighbor (NN) interpolation and an objective analysis (OA) with different spatiotemporal grid resolutions and decorrelation scales. NN is improved with a coarser resolution. OA performs best with low decorrelation scales, avoiding too strong a smoothing, but returns values over larger areas with large decorrelation scales and low temporal resolution, as more points are available. For all resolutions OA represents better the annual extreme values than NN. Both methods underestimate the seasonal cycle in MLD. MLD biases are lower than 10 m on average but can exceed 250 m locally in winter. We argue that current Argo data should not be mapped to infer decadal trends in MLD, as all methods are unable to reproduce existing trends without creating unrealistic extra ones. We also show that regions of the subtropical Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, and the whole ice-covered Southern Ocean, still cannot be mapped even by the best method because of the lack of observational data. Article in Journal/Newspaper Southern Ocean HAL Sorbonne Université Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 120 12 7960 7978 |