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http://dx.doi.org/10.7850/jkso.2009.14.4.195

Estimation of the Surface Currents using Mean Dynamic Topography and Satellite Altimeter Data in the East Sea  

Lee, Sang-Hyun (Ocean Research Division, Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Administration)
Byun, Do-Seong (Ocean Research Division, Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Administration)
Choi, Byoung-Ju (Department of Oceanography, Kunsan National University)
Lee, Eun-Il (Ocean Research Division, Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Administration)
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The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY / v.14, no.4, 2009 , pp. 195-204 More about this Journal
Abstract
In order to estimate sea surface current fields in the East Sea, we examined characteristics of mean dynamic topography (MDT) fields (or mean surface current field, MSC) generated from three different methods. This preliminary investigation evaluates the accuracy of surface currents estimated from satellite-derived sea level anomaly (SLA) data and three MDT fields in the East Sea. AVISO (Archiving, Validation and Interpretation of Satellite Oceanographic data) provides a MDT field derived from satellite observation and numerical models with $0.25^{\circ}$ horizontal resolution. Steric height field relative to 500 dbar from temperature and salinity profiles in the East Sea supplies another MDT field. Trajectory data of surface drifters (ARGOS) in the East Sea for 14 years provide another MSC field. Absolute dynamic topography (ADT) field is calculated by adding SLA to each MDT. Application of geostrophic equation to three different ADT fields yields three surface geostrophic current fields. Comparisons were made between the estimated surface currents from the three different methods and in-situ current measurements from a ship-mounted ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) in the southwestern East Sea in 2005. For offshore areas more than 50 km away from the land, the correlation coefficients (R) between the estimated versus the measured currents range from 0.58 to 0.73, with 17.1 to $21.7\;cm\;s^{-1}$ root mean square deviation (RMSD). For coastal ocean within 50 km from the land, however, R ranges from 0.06 to 0.46 and RMSD ranges from 15.5 to $28.0\;cm\;s^{-1}$. Results from this study reveal that a new approach in producing MDT and SLA is required to improve the accuracy of surface current estimations for the shallow costal zones of the East Sea.
Keywords
Satellite Altimeter data; Mean Dynamic Topography; East Sea; Surface Current;
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