World Ocean Circulation Experiment – Argo Global  Hydrographic Climatology

Gouretski, Viktor

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-1127-2018

Articles | Volume 14, issue 5

Ocean Sci., 14, 1127–1146, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-1127-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Ocean Sci., 14, 1127–1146, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-1127-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 5

Research article 27 Sep 2018

Research article | 27 Sep 2018

World Ocean Circulation Experiment – Argo Global Hydrographic Climatology

Viktor Gouretski

Data sets

WOCE-Argo Global Hydrographic Climatology (WAGHC Version 1.0) V. Gouretski https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/WAGHC_V1.0

Short summary

The new gridded WOCE-Argo Global Hydrographic Climatology (WAGHC) is described and compared with the NOAA WOA13 atlas. The monthly fields of temperature and salinity for 65 depth levels have a 1/4° spatial resolution. Two versions of the climatology were produced and differ with respect to the spatial interpolation performed on isobaric or isopycnal surfaces, respectively. The climatology characterizes the thermohaline state of the world ocean for the time period from 2008 to 2012.