Ocean reanalyses

• Main Author: Haines, Keith
• Other Authors: Chassignet, E. P., Pascual, A., Tintoré, J., Verron, J.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: GODAE OceanView 2018
• Subjects: Ora; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/80495/; https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/80495/1/Chapter19_Haines_edited.pdf

Ocean reanalyses are becoming increasingly available and useful, and may eventually attract a similar applications base as atmospheric reanalyses. Here we look at how they are being evaluated against both assimilated and independent data, and emphasise that circulation and transport estimates are cr...