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• Mars retrieval of Sea Surface Temperature and Surface Salinity from the real time analysis, for the 2nd of March 2007. Only the centered analysis (number=0):

  retrieve,
number=0,
system=3,
time=00:00:00,
date=2007-03-02,
section=h,
levtype=dp,
method=1,
param=129.151/130.151,
levelist=5.0,
stream=ocea,
expver=1,
type=an,
product=inst,
class=od

• Mars retrieval of accumulated sea level and depth of 20 deg Isotherm from the ocean reanalysis for the 1st November 1982:

  retrieve,
number=0,
system=3,
time=00:00:00,
date=1982-11-01,
section=h,
levtype=dp,
method=1,
param=163.151/145.151,
levelist=0,
stream=ocea,
expver=1,
type=or,
product=tacc,
class=od

• Mars retrieval of an intantaneous zonal section of temperature along the equator, from the reanalysis, all 5 ensemble members:

  retrieve,
number=0/1/2/3/4,
system=3,
time=00:00:00,
date=1982-11-01,
stream=ocea,
section=z,
latitude=0,
levtype=dp,
expver=1,
method=1,
class=od,
product=inst,
type=or,
param=129.151

• Mars retrieval of an instantaneous meridional section of zonal velocity at 140W, from the realtime analysis. The user needs to indicate the closer model longitude:

  retrieve,
longitude=220.078,
number=0,
system=3,
time=00:00:00,
date=1982-11-07,
stream=ocea,
section=m,
levtype=dp,
expver=1,
method=1,
type=or,
product=inst,
class=od,
param=131.151

• Mars retrieval of timesies of averaged temperature in the upper 300m along the equator from the reanalysis, for the period 19870101-19870201:

  retrieve,
number=0,
system=3,
time=00:00:00,
date=1987-02-01,
range=720,
section=z,
latitude=0,
levtype=dp,
method=1,
param=164.151,
levelist=0,
stream=ocea,
expver=1,
product=tims,
type=or,
class=od

References and further literature

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Burgers G., M.Balmaseda, F.Vossepoel, G.J.van Oldenborgh, P.J.van Leeuwen, 2002: Balanced ocean-data assimilation near the equator. J Phys Oceanogr, 32, 2509-2519.

Cooper, M.C. and K. Haines, 1996: Data assimilation with water property conservation, J. Geophys. Res 101, C1, 1059-1077

Ducet, N., P.-Y. Le Traon, and G. Reverdin, 2000: Global high resolution mapping of ocean circulation from TOPEX/Poseidon and ERS-1 and -2. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 19477-19498.

Haines K., J. Blower, J-P. Drecourt, C. Liu, A. Vidard, I. Astin, X. Zhou, 2006. Salinity Assimilation using S(T) relationships. Mon. Wea. Rev. Vol. 134, No. 3, pages 759-771.

Ingleby, B and M. Huddleston, 2007. Quality control of ocean temperature and salinity profiles - historical and real-time data. J. Mar. Sys., 65,158-175.

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Levitus S NODC (Levitus) World Ocean Atlas 1998 data provided by the NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagno09.03.2007 at http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/

McPhaden, M. J., A. J. Busalacchi, R. Cheney, J.-R. Donguy, K. S. Gage, D. Halpern, M. Ji, P. Julian, G. Meyers, G. T. Mitchum, P. P. Niiler, J. Picaut, R. W. Reynolds, N. Smith and K. Takeuchi, 1998: The Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere observing system: A decade of progress. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 14169-14240

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Smith N., J Blomley, and G Meyers (1991) A univariate statistical interpolation scheme for subsurface thermal analyses in the tropical oceans. Prog in Oceanography,28, 219-256.

Stockdale T. N., D. L. T. Anderson, J. O. S Alves, and M. A. Balmaseda, 1998.09.03.2007-atmosphere model. Nature, 392, 370-373.

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Vialard, J., Vitart, F., Balmaseda, M. A., Stockdale, T. N., and Anderson, D. L. T., 2005. An ensemble generation method for seasonal forecasting with an ocean-atmosphere coupled model. Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 1379-1395. See also ECMWF Technical Memorandum No 417.

Vitart, F., 2005: Monthly Forecast and the summer 2003 heat wave over Europe: a case study. Atmospheric Science Letter, 6(2), 112-117.

Vitart, F., S. Woolnough, M.A. Balmaseda,2007: Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation using a coupled GCM. Mon. Wea. Rev., In press.

Smith N., J Blomley, and G Meyers (1991) A univariate statistical interpolation scheme for subsurface thermal analyses in the tropical oceans. Prog in Oceanography,28, 219-256.

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