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A daily global mesoscale ocean eddy dataset from satellite altimetry

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Faghmous, James H., Frenger, Ivy, Yao, Yuanshun, Warmka, Robert, Lindell, Aron, Kumar, Vipin·2015·Scientific Data

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Mesoscale ocean eddies are ubiquitous coherent rotating structures of water with radial scales on the order of 100 kilometers. Eddies play a key role in the transport and mixing of momentum and tracers across the World Ocean. We present a global daily mesoscale ocean eddy dataset that contains ~45 million mesoscale features and 3.3 million eddy trajectories that persist at least two days as identified in the AVISO dataset over a period of 1993–2014. This dataset, along with the open-source eddy identification software, extract eddies with any parameters (minimum size, lifetime, etc.), to study global eddy properties and dynamics, and to empirically estimate the impact eddies have on mass or heat transport. Furthermore, our open-source software may be used to identify mesoscale features in model simulations and compare them to observed features. Finally, this dataset can be used to study the interaction between mesoscale ocean eddies and other components of the Earth System.

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  1. Faghmous J. H., Nguyen H., Chatterjee S. & Kumar V. Evaluating Unlabeled Spatio-Temporal Patterns: A Global Ocean Eddy Monitoring Application. In Proc. ACM SIGKDD Data Sci. Soc. Good 1, 41– 45 (2010).
  2. Faghmous J. H., Le M., Uluyol M., Chaterjee S. & Kumar V. Parameter-free spatio-temporal data mining to catalogue global ocean dynamic. In Proc. 13th IEEE Int. Conf. Data Mining (2013).

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Authors
Faghmous, J. H., Frenger, I., Yao, Y., Warmka, R., Lindell, A., & Kumar, V.
Affiliations
  • University of Minnesota (US)
  • Princeton University (US)
Corresponding author
Faghmous, James H.
Venue
Scientific Data
Published
2015-06-09
Volume
2
Issue
1
Pages
150028-150028
ISSN
2052-4463 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1447128777
Cited by
374
References
71
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Type
data paper
Language
en
Open access
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  • Scientific Data (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation (1355072, NNX14AL40G, 1029711)
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NNX14AL40G, IIS-1029711)
  • University of Minnesota
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (152133)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
Keywords
mesoscale ocean eddies, eddy identification, eddy trajectories, satellite altimetry, AVISO, ocean mass transport, heat transport, eddy mixing, ocean circulation
MeSH terms
Hot Temperature, Oceans and Seas, Seawater, Water Movements, Earth, Planet, Meteorology, Satellite Imagery

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