2004 LOM Workshop

Tuesday 10:20 - 11:30 a.m. Poster Session

Estimating Salinity Profiles to Accompany XBT Data in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Gulf Stream

William Carlisle Thacker and Laurie Sindlinger
NOAA/AOML
carlisle.thacker@noaa.gov

ABSTRACT

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In estimating salinity profiles that will accompany XBT data being assimilated into numerical models, the relationship between temperature and salinity for a specific region can be determined by the available CTD data. Salinity models can then be created from the CTD data at specific depths within a selected region. CTD data from the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf Stream were used to begin exploring salinity models, but first, several procedures were necessary to give a more even sampling of the regions and to remove large outliers from the data.

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