Simulated Sea Surface Speeds
- Support:
- Leann Johnson
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The model has a .75 to 2.2 km horizontal grid spacing and 90 vertical levels, with 1-m vertical levels near the surface. The full 3D grid is output at hourly intervals.
Yellow shades represent relatively fast sea surface speeds, while red shades represent slower speeds. The simulation was carried out using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model (mitgcm.org) by the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) group.
Credits:
C. Hill, G. Forget (MIT)
C. Henze, B. Nelson, B. Ciotti (Ames)
D. Menemenlis (JPL)
A. Chaudhuri (AER)
MITgcm/ECCO developers and users
SGI and NAS computer scientists and engineers
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
JPL
Project support
- Leann Johnson (GST) [Lead]
- Ian Jones (ADNET)
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET)
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