Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-161-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-161-2018
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02 Mar 2018
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Decorrelation scales for Arctic Ocean hydrography – Part I: Amerasian Basin

Hiroshi Sumata, Frank Kauker, Michael Karcher, Benjamin Rabe, Mary-Louise Timmermans, Axel Behrendt, Rüdiger Gerdes, Ursula Schauer, Koji Shimada, Kyoung-Ho Cho, and Takashi Kikuchi

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Arctic Switchyard project LDEO http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/Switchyard

Baufort Gyre Exploration Program Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution http://www.whoi.edu/beaufortgyre

The Ice-Tethered Profiler: Argo of the Arctic J. M. Toole, R. A. Krishfield, M.-L. Timmermans, and A. Proshutinsky https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2011.64

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We estimated spatial and temporal decorrelation scales of temperature and salinity in the Amerasian Basin in the Arctic Ocean. The estimated scales can be applied to representation error assessment in the ocean data assimilation system for the Arctic Ocean.