A comparison of in situ bottom pressure array measurements with GRACE estimates in the Kuroshio Extension

Details A comparison of in situ bottom pressure array measurements with GRACE estimates in the Kuroshio Extension A comparison of in situ bottom pressure array measurements with GRACE estimates in the Kuroshio Extension

Sep 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008georl..3517601p&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 35, Issue 17, CiteID L17601

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Oceanography: Physical: Instruments And Techniques, Oceanography: Physical: Sea Level: Variations And Mean (1222, 1225, 1641), Oceanography: Physical: Eddies And Mesoscale Processes, Oceanography: Physical: Deep Recirculations, Oceanography: Physical: Western Boundary Currents

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Ocean bottom pressure estimates from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) have been validated by comparisons with an array of in situ bottom pressure measurements. The 600 km by 600 km array comprised 46 bottom pressure sensors that were part of the Kuroshio Extension System Study (KESS). Validations in other ocean regions have been limited by available data to pointwise bottom pressure measurements. Spatially-averaged monthly-mean bottom pressure over the KESS array is highly correlated with GRACE bottom pressure estimated at the center of the array. The correlations are nearly equally high for three standard choices of spatial smoothing radius applied to GRACE estimates, 300, 500, and 750 km. In contrast, pointwise comparisons between GRACE and individual bottom pressures are high or low in sub-regions of KESS, depending partially upon the local variance of deep mesoscale eddies whose energetic length scales are shorter than 300 km. KESS is a suitable validation experiment for the GRACE estimates at monthly scales with 300 to 750 km spatial radius of smoothing.

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