Measurements in the Ocean Peter Challenor University of Exeter and National Oceanography Centre.

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Measurements in the Ocean Peter Challenor University of Exeter and National Oceanography Centre

What is Measured Temperature and Salinity – Density Bottom Pressure Velocity Tracer Chemistry

Geostrophy Combining and integrating So we take density changes relative to a reference level, z 0, and we can calculate the velocity between any two columns of density measurements

Temperature and Salinity from Research Ships

The Reversing Thermometer Main Instrument for temperature pre-1970 Sd 0.01K (Quadfasel et al 1990)

CTD – conductivity, temperature and depth

Salinty Salinity is measured by the conductivity This measurement needs to be calibrated This is done on board ship from water samples with a salinometer

Repeat Hydrography

EXPENDABLE PROBES

The Expendable BathyThermograph (XBT) Only measures temperature. Depth comes from drop rate. Widely used by navies and some commercial ships. Recent corrections to drop rate

Routine XBT Coverage

Floats and Seals

Floats

ARGO floats

The current ARGO network

Data from Marine Mammals

Experimental full depth ARGO floats

Gliders

Autosub

VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS

Current Meters

MOORINGS

MOVE Array

26.5˚N ( ) Cunningham, S. A., et al. (2007), Temporal variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5°N, Science, 317, Kanzow, T., et al. (2007), Observed flow compensation associated with the MOC at 26.5°N in the Atlantic, Science, 317, Measuring the strength and vertical structure of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and associated heat transport

The array

RAPID MOC time series: since 2004

Tracer Chemistry The ocean dissolves gases from the atmosphere Anthropogenic gases – Tritium, CFC, … – have known atmospheric concentrations with time. Knowing the dissolution rate we can estimate the time since any sample of water was at the surface

Motivation: How much anthropogenic carbon does the ocean take up? Where does the ocean take up carbon? How might the uptake of carbon respond to further changes in the climate system? Sabine et al, Science, 2004

World Ocean Database 2013 Collects all oceanographic data d.html

Pre-1900

2010-Present

Post 1980 CTD 3500m+

World Ocean Atlas 2009 ‘Objectively Analysed’ mean field + s.d. at 1°and 5° resolution at fixed depth levels woa09.html

Inverse Solutions Ganachaud & Wunsch (2000)

Reanalyses Combine data with ocean models via data assimilation – ECCO – SODA – ECMWF

Some Statistical Issues Modelling T&S simultaneously (Sahu and Challenor 2008) 3-d analysis Analysis along density levels rather than pressure or depth levels Spatio-temporal modelling with data at varying locations