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Global Ocean in situ - Delayed Mode temperature and salinity CORA -objective analysis

The global ocean objective analysis (gridded) fields of temperature and salinity are produced from the in situ profiles available in the reprocessed (or multiyear) in-situ CORA product INSITU_GLO_PHY_TS_DISCRETE_MY_013_001, with the exception of moorings, thermosalinographs and surface drifters. The objective analysis is based on the ISAS method (Gaillard et al. 2009), a statistical estimation approach that enables the mapping of ocean in situ profiles onto three-dimensional gridded fields.

The resulting gridded product has a spatial resolution of 0.5° in latitude and 0.5° in longitude at the equator and includes 187 vertical levels. It provides monthly temperature and salinity fields centered the 15th of the month. It is updated twice a year by a full reprocessing covering the whole period from 1960 to December of the last year before present time (produced generally in November) and a temporal extension of the first 6 months of the ongoing year (done generally in July).

A monthly file (data file) gathering the observed profiles used to calculate the analysis, which are interpolated on the vertical grid, is also provided.

'''DOI (product) :'''

https://doi.org/10.48670/mds-00383