Product: Ocean Center of Mass
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ECCO_v4r4_yesFWF.cm| Title | CM - ECCO_v4r4_yesFWF |
| Date | 2020-08-12 |
| Volume | ECCO_v4r4_yesFWF |
| Content | oceanic center-of-mass (COM), and total ocean mass (includes effects of sea ice) Ocean model : ECCO Version 4 Release 4 (based on MITgcm) Horizontal domain : Global Horizontal resolution : Variable spacing ranging from 22 km to 111 km (see Forget et al. 2015, section 2) Vertical resolution : 50 levels ranging in thickness from 10 m at surface to 460 m at depth Boussinesq model? : Yes Tabulated COM corrected for volume changes due to steric effects? : Yes Includes mass effects from net real freshwater flux Ocean model forcing : 6-hourly ERA-Interim values adjusted by optimization (see Forget et al. 2015, section 3.5); atmospheric surface pressure included but not adjusted by the optimization (see Fukumori et al. 2019) Data assimilated : sea level altimetry, in situ temperature/salinity, satellite SST/SSS, bottom pressure, sea-ice concentration (see Fukumori et al. 2019) |
| Documentation | File units : meters for COM, kg for mass The mean has been removed from the tabulated COM and mass values. The mean COM (meters; x,y,z) = -7.63696350E+05 -4.66355056E+05 -8.75387015E+05 The mean total ocean mass (kg) = 1.37376730E+21 This ocean mass can be used to convert the COM values given here to geocenter values. |
| Time Interval | hourly |
| Time Start | 1992-01-01 |
| Time End | 2017-12-31 |
| Data Points | 227903 |
| Data | MJD, COM_X, COM_Y, COM_Z |
| Format | ASCII |
| Frequency | Irregular |
| Keywords | Geophysical fluids, COM |
| Published by | GGFC Special Bureau for the Oceans |
| Contact | rponte@aer.com |
| Distribution | onLine |
| Source | ftp://ig2-dmz.gfz-potsdam.de/GGFC-Oceans/COM/ECCO_v4r4_yesFWF.cm |