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The ERA5 global reanalysis Open
Within the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF is producing the ERA5 reanalysis which, once completed, will embody a detailed record of the global atmosphere, land surface and ocean waves from 1950 onwards. This new reanalysis r…
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Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature, Version 5 (ERSSTv5): Upgrades, Validations, and Intercomparisons Open
The monthly global 2° × 2° Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature (ERSST) has been revised and updated from version 4 to version 5. This update incorporates a new release of ICOADS release 3.0 (R3.0), a decade of near-surface data …
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Improvements of the Daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (DOISST) Version 2.1 Open
The NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI Daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (SST), version 2.0, dataset (DOISST v2.0) is a blend of in situ ship and buoy SSTs with satellite SSTs derived from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHR…
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A long-term record of blended satellite and in situ sea-surface temperature for climate monitoring, modeling and environmental studies Open
This paper describes a blended sea-surface temperature (SST) data set that is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Data Record (CDR) program product suite. Using optimum interpolation (OI), in situ and…
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An Ensemble Data Set of Sea Surface Temperature Change From 1850: The Met Office Hadley Centre HadSST.4.0.0.0 Data Set Open
One of the largest sources of uncertainty in estimates of global temperature change is that associated with the correction of systematic errors in sea surface temperature (SST) measurements. Despite recent work to quantify and reduce these…
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Comparison of ERA5 and ERA-Interim near-surface air temperature, snowfall and precipitation over Arctic sea ice: effects on sea ice thermodynamics and evolution Open
Rapid changes are occurring in the Arctic, including a reduction in sea ice thickness and coverage and a shift towards younger and thinner sea ice. Snow and sea ice models are often used to study these ongoing changes in the Arctic, and ar…
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Toward the Integrated Marine Debris Observing System Open
Plastics and other artificial materials pose new risks to the health of the ocean. Anthropogenic debris travels across large distances and is ubiquitous in the water and on shorelines, yet, observations of its sources, composition, pathway…
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33 years of globally calibrated wave height and wind speed data based on altimeter observations Open
This dataset consists of 33 years (1985 to 2018), of global significant wave height and wind speed obtained from 13 altimeters, namely: GEOSAT , ERS-1 , TOPEX , ERS-2 , GFO , JASON-1 , ENVISAT , JASON-2 , CRYOSAT-2 , HY-2A , SARAL , JASON-…
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Evaluation of the Reanalysis Surface Incident Shortwave Radiation Products from NCEP, ECMWF, GSFC, and JMA Using Satellite and Surface Observations Open
Solar radiation incident at the Earth’s surface (Rs) is an essential component of the total energy exchange between the atmosphere and the surface. Reanalysis data have been widely used, but a comprehensive validation using surface measure…
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A system for monitoring water quality in a large aquatic area using wireless sensor network technology Open
In this paper, a low cost, real-time water quality monitoring system which can be applied in remote rivers, lakes, coastal areas and other water bodies is presented. The main hardware of the system consists of off-the-shelf electrochemical…
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Observing Sea States Open
Sea state information is needed for many applications, ranging from safety at sea and on the coast, for which real time data are essential, to planning and design needs for infrastructure that require long time series. The definition of th…
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Based Wireless Sensor Network for Marine-Coastal Environment Monitoring Open
Marine environments are delicate ecosystems which directly influence local climates, flora, fauna, and human activities. Their monitorization plays a key role in their preservation, which is most commonly done through the use of environmen…
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A Biodegradable Surface Drifter for Ocean Sampling on a Massive Scale Open
Targeted observations of submesoscale currents are necessary to improve science’s understanding of oceanic mixing, but these dynamics occur at spatiotemporal scales that are currently challenging to detect. Prior studies have recently show…
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Sea surface temperature from the new Japanese geostationary meteorological Himawari‐8 satellite Open
Himawari‐8 is a new geostationary meteorological satellite operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The Earth Observation Research Center of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in collaboration with the JMA produces skin sea s…
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The new CNES-CLS18 global mean dynamic topography Open
The mean dynamic topography (MDT) is a key reference surface for altimetry. It is needed for the calculation of the ocean absolute dynamic topography, and under the geostrophic approximation, the estimation of surface currents. CNES-CLS me…
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Coupled mooring analysis for floating wave energy converters using CFD: Formulation and validation Open
Floating wave energy converters (WECs) operating in the resonance region are stronglyaffected by non-linearities arising from the interaction between the waves, the WECmotion and the mooring restraints. To compute the restrained WEC motion…
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Modeling marine surface microplastic transport to assess optimal removal locations Open
Marine plastic pollution is an ever-increasing problem that demands immediate mitigation and reduction plans. Here, a model based on satellite-tracked buoy observations and scaled to a large data set of observations on microplastic from su…
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Experimental and numerical analysis of a hybrid WEC-breakwater system combining an oscillating water column and an oscillating buoy Open
Integrating multi-type Wave Energy Converters (WECs) enables wave energy to be extracted from multiple harvesting manners simultaneously, which presents a more competitive energy conversion technology. In this study, an Oscillating Water C…
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Experimental and numerical investigation of WEC-type floating breakwaters: A single-pontoon oscillating buoy and a dual-pontoon oscillating water column Open
Wave energy converters(WECs) integrated into floating breakwaters or, more generally, their designs also used as wave absorbers can provide a space- and cost-sharing solution to enhance the efficiency of coastal protection. In this study, …
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Thin ice and storms: Sea ice deformation from buoy arrays deployed during <span>N‐ICE</span>2015 Open
Arctic sea ice has displayed significant thinning as well as an increase in drift speed in recent years. Taken together this suggests an associated rise in sea ice deformation rate. A winter and spring expedition to the sea ice covered reg…
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Sea Surface Wind Speed Retrieval from the First Chinese GNSS-R Mission: Technique and Preliminary Results Open
Launched on 5 June 2019, the BuFeng-1 A/B twin satellites were part of the first Chinese global navigation satellite system reflectometry (GNSS-R) satellite mission. In this letter, a brief introduction of the BF-1 mission and its prelimin…
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Wave hindcast statistics in the seasonally ice-covered Baltic Sea Open
We used six years of wave hindcasts, calculated by the wave model WAM, to compile wave statistics for the Baltic Sea. The wave model was implemented taking into account the special features of the Baltic Sea: irregular coastline, archipela…
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Improved Use of Scatterometer Measurements by Using Stress-Equivalent Reference Winds Open
Numerical weather prediction (NWP) and buoy ocean surface winds show some systematic differences with satellite scatterometer and radiometer wind measurements, both in statistical results and in local geographical regions. It is possible t…
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Design and comparative analysis of alternative mooring systems for floating wind turbines in shallow water with emphasis on ultimate limit state design Open
Floating wind turbines represent a cost-efficient energy solution in deep water where bottom-fixed wind turbine becomes excessively expensive. However, mooring design is quite challenging for all shallow water depths including the transiti…
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The California coastal wave monitoring and prediction system Open
A decade-long effort to estimate nearshore (20 m depth) wave conditions based on offshore buoy observations along the California coast is described. Offshore, deep water directional wave buoys are used to initialize a non-stationary, linea…
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Global Wave Height Trends and Variability from New Multimission Satellite Altimeter Products, Reanalyses, and Wave Buoys Open
Long‐term changes in ocean surface waves are relevant to society and climate research. Significant wave height climatologies and trends over 1992–2017 are intercompared in four recent high‐quality global datasets using a consistent methodo…
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Performance Characteristics of “Spotter,” a Newly Developed Real-Time Wave Measurement Buoy Open
The Spotter is a low-cost, real-time, solar-powered wave measurement buoy that was recently developed by Spoondrift Technologies, Inc. (Spoondrift). To evaluate the data quality of the Spotter device, we performed a series of validation ex…
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Impact of snow accumulation on CryoSat‐2 range retrievals over Arctic sea ice: An observational approach with buoy data Open
Radar altimetry measurements of the current satellite mission CryoSat‐2 show an increase of Arctic sea ice thickness in autumn 2013, compared to previous years but also related to March 2013. Such an increase over the melting season seems …
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An assessment of air–sea heat fluxes from ocean and coupled reanalyses Open
Sixteen monthly air–sea heat flux products from global ocean/coupled reanalyses are compared over 1993–2009 as part of the Ocean Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (ORA-IP). Objectives include assessing the global heat closure, the consist…
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Utilizing CryoSat-2 sea ice thickness to initialize a coupled ice-ocean modeling system Open
Two CryoSat-2 sea ice thickness products derived with independent algorithms are used to initialize a coupled ice-ocean modeling system in which a series of reanalysis studies are performed for the period of March 15, 2014–September 30, 20…