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CLIVAR Ocean Synthesis Directory
Ocean Synthesis/Reanalysis Intercomparison Project
At the CLIVAR/GODAE Meeting on Ocean Synthesis Evaluation, held at ECMWF, UK, in August 2006, several ocean systhesis efforts produced outputs for a collaborative intercomparison assessment of the existing global analysis/synthesis products. These intercomparison assessment followed an evaluation framework developed in the white paper produced by Lee and Stammer, the "CLIVAR/GODAE Global Synthesis Evaluation Framework".
A Second CLIVAR/GODAE Meeting on Ocean Synthesis Evaluation is planned to happen on 24-25 September 2007 at the MIT, USA.
Results of the intercomparison effort are summarised in the documents below.
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Group 1: RMS Model-Data Misfits (SSH) |
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Patrick Heimbach and Dimitris Menemenlis |
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Group 1: RMS Model-Data Misfits (Climatology) |
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Group 1: RMS Model-Data Misfits (In Situ) |
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Group 2: Meridional Transports |
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Armin Koehl |
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Group 3: Heat and Salt Content |
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Magdalena Balmaseda and Anthony Weaver |
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Group 4: Sea Level Changes |
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Group 5: Transports through Key Regions |
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Tong Lee |
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Group 6: Water Masses |
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Keith Haines and Tong Lee |
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Group 7: Indices |
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Albert Fischer |
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Group 8: Surface Fluxes |
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Lisan Yu |