Spatial scales of temperature and salinity variability estimated from  Argo observations

Ninove, F.; Le Traon, P.-Y.; Remy, E.; Guinehut, S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-1-2016

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-1-2016

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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-1-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

Research article

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14 Jan 2016

Research article |

| 14 Jan 2016

Spatial scales of temperature and salinity variability estimated from Argo observations

F. Ninove, P.-Y. Le Traon, E. Remy, and S. Guinehut

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RC C627: 'Review of paper entitled "Spatial scales of temperature and salinity variability estimated from Argo observations" by Ninove et al.', Pierre-Marie Poulain, 28 Aug 2015
RC C663: 'Comments of “Spatial scales of temperature and salinity variability estimated from Argo observations” by F. Ninove et al.', Fabrizio D'Ortenzio, 03 Sep 2015
SC C801: 'Comments on "Spatial scales of temperature and salinity variability estimated from Argo observations"', Yurii Resnyanskii, 02 Oct 2015
- SC C838: 'response to comment', Pierre-Yves Le Traon, 09 Oct 2015
  - SC C846: 'Comments and a question on the reply by P.Y. Le Traon', Michael Tsyrulnikov, 11 Oct 2015
    - SC C854: 'response to reply', Pierre-Yves Le Traon, 13 Oct 2015
SC C835: 'response to reviewers', Pierre-Yves Le Traon, 09 Oct 2015
AC C953: 'Final Response', Elisabeth REMY, 20 Oct 2015

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AR by Elisabeth REMY on behalf of the Authors (22 Oct 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (04 Nov 2015) by Alessandro Crise

AR by Elisabeth REMY on behalf of the Authors (10 Nov 2015) Manuscript

Short summary

Argo floats are one of the main components of the in situ observation network in the ocean. Nowadays, more than 3500 profiling floats are sampling the world ocean. In this study, they are used to characterize spatial scales of temperature and salinity variations from the surface down to 1500m. The scales appear to be anisotropic and vary from about 100km at high latitudes to 700km in the Indian and Pacific equatorial and tropical regions.