Southern Ocean mesoscale eddies

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Creator
Frenger, Ivy
Date
2018
Type
  • Data Collection
Rights / license
In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Abstract
The data file contains ocean mesoscale eddies identified based on satellite altimetry for the Southern Ocean.
Permanent link
https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000238826
Contributors
Contact person: Frenger, Ivy
Publisher
ETH Zurich
Edition / version
v1
Geographic location
Place nameSouthern OceanPoint coordinatesLatitude: -68.4380131Longitude: -160.2384233
Date collected
1997/2010
Date created
2018-02
Subject
Southern Ocean; Mesoscale eddies; Chlorophyll; Phytoplankton
Organisational unit
03731 - Gruber, Nicolas
Notes
The data contains tracks of individual eddies and their characteristics, specifically it contains following variables, for anticyclones and cyclones separately: "Eddy identifier": Unique number assigned to each eddy track; "Eddy tracking time step": Counter for the number of time steps the eddy has been tacked, starting with 1 for each eddy track; 1 time step corresponds to 7 days; "Longitude": Longitude of eddy center; "Latitude": Latitude of eddy center; "Diameter": Diameter of a circle covering the same area as the respective eddy; "Log base 10 chlorophyll": Chlorophyll averaged over eddy area; "Log base 10 chlorophyll anomaly": Chlorophyll anomaly averaged over eddy area; "Log base 10 background chlorophyll": Background chlorophyll averaged over eddy area; "Year", "Month", "Day": Date of eddy snapshot.
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