World ocean isopycnal level absolute geostrophic velocity (WOIL-V) inverted from GDEM with the P-Vector method
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Authors
Chu, P.C.
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isopycnal level
world ocean geostrophic velocity
GDEM
P-vector method
climatology
world ocean geostrophic velocity
GDEM
P-vector method
climatology
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2018
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MDPI
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Abstract
Three-dimensional dataset of world ocean climatological annual and monthly mean absolute geostrophic velocity in isopycnal level (called WOIL-V) has been produced from the United States (U.S.) Navy’s Generalized Digital Environmental Model (GDEM) temperature and salinity fields (open access from the website http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.nodc: 9600094) using the P-vector method. The data have horizontal resolution of 0.5◦ × 0.5◦, and 222 isopycnal-levels. The total 13 data files include annual and monthly mean values. The WOIL-V is the only dataset of absolute geostrophic velocity in isopycnal level compatible to the GDEM (T, S) fields, and provides background ocean currents for oceanographic and climatic studies, especially in ocean modeling with the isopycnal coordinate system.
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The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/data3010001.
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Oceanography
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Chu, P.C., 2018: World ocean isopycnal level absolute geostrophic velocity (WOIL-V) inverted from GDEM with the P-Vector method. Data, 3 (1), 1; doi:10.3390/data3010001.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.