World Ocean Atlas of Argo inferred statistics

This dataset provides a World Ocean Atlas of Argo inferred statistics. The primary data are exclusively Argo profiles. The statistics are done using the whole time range covered by the Argo data, starting in July 1997. The atlas is provided with a 0.25° resolution in the horizontal and 63 depths from 0 m to 2,000 m in the vertical. The statistics include means of Conservative Temperature (CT), Absolute Salinity, compensated density, compressiblity factor and vertical isopycnal displacement (VID); standard deviations of CT, VID and the squared Brunt Vaisala frequency; skewness and kurtosis of VID; and Eddy Available Potential Energy (EAPE). The compensated density is the product of the in-situ density times the compressibility factor. It generalizes the virtual density used in Roullet et al. (2014). The compressibility factor is defined so as to remove the dependency with pressure of the in-situ density. The compensated density is used in the computation of the VID and the EAPE.

Title: World Ocean Atlas of Argo inferred statistics

Date (Publication): 2020-03-09

Date (Revision): 2023-02-16

Other citation details: Roullet Guillaume (2020). World Ocean Atlas of Argo inferred statistics. SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/72432

In addition to properly cite this dataset, it would be appreciated that the following work(s) be cited too, when using this dataset in a publication :

Roullet Guillaume, Capet Xavier, Maze Guillaume (2014). Global Interior Eddy Available Potential Energy Diagnosed from Argo Floats. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(5), 1651-1656. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013GL059004

Abstract: This dataset provides a World Ocean Atlas of Argo inferred statistics. The primary data are exclusively Argo profiles. The statistics are done using the whole time range covered by the Argo data, starting in July 1997. The atlas is provided with a 0.25° resolution in the horizontal and 63 depths from 0 m to 2,000 m in the vertical. The statistics include means of Conservative Temperature (CT), Absolute Salinity, compensated density, compressiblity factor and vertical isopycnal displacement (VID); standard deviations of CT, VID and the squared Brunt Vaisala frequency; skewness and kurtosis of VID; and Eddy Available Potential Energy (EAPE). The compensated density is the product of the in-situ density times the compressibility factor. It generalizes the virtual density used in Roullet et al. (2014). The compressibility factor is defined so as to remove the dependency with pressure of the in-situ density. The compensated density is used in the computation of the VID and the EAPE.

Credit: G. Roullet thanks LOPS for a financial support

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Univ Brest, CNRS, IRD, IFREMER, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), IUEM, Brest, France	Roullet Guillaume	roullet@univ-brest.fr	Author
	SEANOE		Publisher

Theme

climatology
World Ocean
Argo
EAPE
compensated density
standard deviation
statistical moments
Physical oceanography

ODATIS aggregation parameters and Essential Variable names

SeaDataNet Parameter Disciplines

Physical oceanography

Research Infrastructure

IR-ARGO

National Services Observation

SNO-ARGO France

Type de jeux de donnée ODATIS

Analysis data

Use limitation: CC-BY (Creative Commons - Attribution)

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Title: Energetics of Multiscale Interactions in the Agulhas Retroflection Current System

Date (Publication): 2023

Cited responsible party

Organisation name	Individual name	Role
American Meteorological Society		Publisher
	Li Mengmeng	Author
	Pang Chongguang	Author
	Yan Xiaomei	Author
	Zhang Linlin	Author
	Liu Zhiliang	Author

Code: 10.1175/JPO-D-21-0275.1

Association Type: Cross reference

Initiative Type: Study

Title: Deep Eddy Kinetic Energy in the Tropical Pacific from Lagrangian Floats

Date (Publication): 2020

Cited responsible party

Organisation name	Individual name	Role
American Geophysical Union (AGU)		Publisher
	Delpech A.	Author
	Cravatte S.	Author
	Marin F.	Author
	Ménesguen C.	Author
	Morel Y.	Author

Code: 10.1029/2020JC016313

Association Type: Cross reference

Initiative Type: Study

Title: Deep Eddy Kinetic Energy in the Tropical Pacific From Lagrangian Floats

Date (Publication): 2020

Cited responsible party

Organisation name	Individual name	Role
American Geophysical Union (AGU)		Publisher
	Delpech Audrey	Author
	Cravatte S.	Author
	Marin Frederic	Author
	Ménesguen Claire	Author
	Morel Y	Author

Code: 10.1029/2020JC016313

Association Type: Cross reference

Initiative Type: Study

Title: Global Interior Eddy Available Potential Energy Diagnosed from Argo Floats

Date (Publication): 2014

Cited responsible party

Organisation name	Individual name	Role
Amer Geophysical Union		Publisher
	ROULLET GUILLAUME	Author
	CAPET XAVIER	Author
	MAZE GUILLAUME	Author

Code: 10.1002/2013GL059004

Association Type: Cross reference

Initiative Type: Study

Title: Argo float data and metadata from Global Data Assembly Centre (Argo GDAC)

Date (Publication): 2025

Cited responsible party

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
SEANOE			Publisher
	Argo		Author

Code: 10.17882/42182

Association Type: Cross reference

Initiative Type: dataset

Language: English

Topic category

Oceans

Begin date: 1997-07-28

End date: 2020-03-06

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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--metadata-URL	https://doi.org/10.17882/72432	DOI of the product
rel-canonical	https://www.seanoe.org/data/00612/72432/	Seanoe

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File identifier: seanoe:72432

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2023-02-16

Metadata standard name: ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version: 1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Univ Brest, CNRS, IRD, IFREMER, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), IUEM, Brest, France	Roullet Guillaume	roullet@univ-brest.fr	Local service desk

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10.17882/72432

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Compensated density at 1,000m (with an offset of 1000 kg m-3)

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