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Sea surface freshwater flux estimates from GECCO, HOAPS and NCEP

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Stammer,  D.
Max Planck Fellows, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Andersson,  A.
Terrestrial Remote Sensing / HOAPS, The Land in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Bakan,  S.
Terrestrial Remote Sensing / HOAPS, The Land in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Romanova, V., Köhl, A., Stammer, D., Klepp, C., Andersson, A., & Bakan, S. (2010). Sea surface freshwater flux estimates from GECCO, HOAPS and NCEP. Tellus - A, 62, 435-452. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2010.00447.x.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-F5C0-E
Abstract
Surface net freshwater flux fields, estimated from the GECCO ocean state estimation effort over the 50 yr period 1951-2001, are compared to purely satellite-based HOAPS freshwater flux estimates and to the NCEP atmospheric re-analysis net surface freshwater flux fields to assess the quality of all flux products and to improve our understanding of the time-mean surface freshwater flux distribution as well as its temporal variability. Surface flux fields are adjusted by the GECCO state estimation procedure together with initial temperature and salinity conditions so that the model simulation becomes consistent with ocean observations. The entirely independent HOAPS net surface freshwater flux fields result from the difference between SSM/I based precipitation estimates and fields of evaporation resulting from a bulk aerodynamic approach using SSM/I data and the Pathfinder SST. All three products agree well on a global scale. However, overall GECCO seems to have moved away from the NCEP/NCAR first guess surface fluxes and is often closer to the HOAPS data set. This holds for the time mean as well as for the seasonal cycle.