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Sea Surface Height VariabilityObserved by Pressure-recording Inverted
Echo Sounders and Satellite Altimetry In the Kuroshio Extension
Jae-Hun Park, D. R. Watts, K. D. Donohue, A. L. Fearing,
A. D. Greene, and K. L. Tracey
Graduate School of OceanographyUniversity of Rhode Island
March 7, 2008
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Kuroshio Extension System Study(KESS, June 2004 - June 2006)
46 Pressure-recording inverted echo sounders(PIESs)
7 moored profilers
48 profiling floats
1 moored surface buoy(KEO buoy)
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PIES(Pressure-recording Inverted Echo Sounder)
Emits 12 kHz sound pulses
Measures τ - round trip travel times of acoustic pulses from the bottom to the surface
Measures bottom pressure (Pbot) - resolution < 1mm
A robust empirical relationship exists between τ and vertical profiles of T and δ
Dynamic height (φ4000 )
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Measure sea level- From the space
Acoustic echo time
Bottom pressure
Jason-1 Gravity
( ( ( ( ( ( ( (
Sea level change= Steric + Mass-loading
(baroclinic + barotropic)
Steric
Mass-loading
Radar Steric + mass-loading
− = Steric
and the sea floor
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AVISO dataMonomission product
- Delayed-time along-track sea levelanomalies ( Mono-SLA )
- Jason-1
Multimission products- Delayed-time
“Reference” gridded sea level anomalies ( Ref-MSLA )
- Jason-1 + Envisat
- Delayed-time “Up-to-date” gridded sea level anomalies ( Upd-MSLA )
- Jason-1 + Envisat + GFO + TOPEX/Poseidon
• Note that T/P was moved to a new orbit midway of its original ground tracks to give a way to Jason-1 during 09/2002-10/2005.
• Peak numbers of altimeters flying.
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Comparisons of PIES-derived SSH with altimetry measurements
How well do they agree?
Error range of PIES-derived SSHA : 3.8-8.7 cm
Error range of AVISO SLA : 4.6-5.1 cm
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Mono-SLA and PIES-derived SSHA
PIES-derived SSHAMono-SLA
Lowest correlation (0.91) at C4Low SSH signal reduces S/N ratio, and hence correlation
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Regression Coefficients
Correlation Coefficients
1
0.9
0.8
0.7
1.1
1
0.9
0.8
0.7Num
ber of site
s
12
6
1.0
Mean=0.95
Mean=0.97
(slope)
Mono-SLA and PIES-derived SSHA
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Ref-MSLA and PIES-derived SSHA
PIES-derived SSHARef-MSLA
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1
0.9
0.8
0.7
1.1
1
0.9
0.8
0.7Num
ber of site
s
20
10
1.0
Mean=0.97
Mean=0.92
Ref-MSLA and PIES-derived SSHA
Regression Coefficients
Correlation Coefficients
(slope)
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Upd-MSLA and PIES-derived SSHA1
0.9
0.8
0.7
1.1
1
0.9
0.8
0.7Num
ber of site
s
20
10
1.0
Mean=0.99
Mean=0.94
Regression Coefficients
Correlation Coefficients
(slope)
C4
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Why does the lowest correlation occur around C4?
2lowσSSHAof2σ : Variance of
20-day low-passfiltered SSHA from PIES
: Variance of 20-day high-passfiltered SSHA from PIES
2lowσ
2highσ
2low
2high σσ
0.08
0.12
0.04
Correlation Coefficients
C4Not extra noise (altimeter nor PIES)Not only low SSH signal and S/N ratioHF component spoils 7-day mapping in ~300 km region
2highσ
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Rms Errors (along-track 26 sites)Observed rms differencesMono-SLA 6.8 cmRef-MSLA 9.4 cmUpd-MSLA 9.1 cm
Error Budget for AVISO : 4.6-5.1 cmGDR Corrected SSH 3.3 cmPost-processing - IB 2.5-3.0 cm
- Tides 2.0-2.5 cm
Error Budget for PIES : 3.8-8.7 cmSea state scatter 0.2 cmSea state bias 0.1 cmTides 0.1 cmPressure drift 1.0 cmMooring motion 0.2 cmSpline-curve Lookup 3.7-8.6 cm
From Baker-Yeboah (2008)
Predicted rms difference
when error caused by geographical positionmismatch between Jason-1 and PIES = 1.4 cm (1 km offset)
(4.6 to 5.1)2 + (3.8 to 8.7)2 + 1.42 = 6.1 to 10.2 cm
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What Mean Dynamic Topography (MDT) works best in this region?
1500-dbar reference
AVISO (Rio05) Levitus analysis
Levitus Raw Teague (1990)
AVISO (Rio03)
2.0
2.6
1.4
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Mean differences (Satellite – PIES)
Satellite: MDT + Ref-MSLA
PIES: Steric (φ1500) + Mass-loading
AVISO (Rio05) Levitus analysis
Levitus Raw Teague (1990)
AVISO (Rio03)
0.1
0.2
-0.1
0
-0.2
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Summary
The SSH measurements from PIES and from altimetry agree with high correlations in the Kuroshio Extension. Rms differences between them are all within predictable error bars.
High-frequency variability can reduce correlations in the merged products.
Up-to-date SLA product (Upd-MSLA) shows the best mapped agreement with PIES-derived SSHA.
Rio05 mean dynamic topography (MDT) works best in this region to reference altimeter SLA.