Destination of the NGCU

Work done during my poste rouge at LEGOS, April-July 2010

Initial data exploration:
1. Mapped Argo product (Roemmich and Gilson)
  1. Sections on 165°E:
    1. Salinity: Whole section Overlay sigma Detail 30°S-10°N, 0-1000m On sigma
    2. PV: Whole section Detail
    3. u_g on density: Whole section
  2. Maps on isopycnals:
    1. Sigma 26.5: Salinity ug PV PV and overlaid MSF PV and overlaid ug vectors v2
    2. Sigma 26.9: Salinity ug PV PV and overlaid MSF
    3. Sigma 27.2: Salinity ug PV PV and overlaid MSF
  3. Sections of the NGCU near Rossel Same from CARS 09
2. CARS climatology (Ridgway and Dunn)
  1. Sections on 165°E:
    1. Salinity: (CARS 05) Whole section Overlay sigma Detail 30°S-10°N, 0-1000m
      (CARS 09): Whole section Overlay sigma Detail 30°S-10°N, 0-1000m
    2. u_g on density: (CARS 05) Whole section
      u_g on density: (CARS 09) Whole section (35°S-10°N)
      Recall Ferret struggling: problems (Try smoothing) Difference Difference profiles
  2. Maps on isopycnals:
    1. Reference maps of salinity and oxygen at every 0.5th isopycnal from 23.5 to 27.5.
    2. And ... another version!!! Salinity Oxygen Salinity, overlay oxygen
      (En fait, ces figures montrent des niveaux legerement differentes)
    3. Isopycnal depths
    4. Sigma 26.5:
      CARS 05: Salinity ug
      CARS 09: Salinity ug PV
    5. Sigma 26.9:
      CARS 05: Salinity ug
      CARS 09: Salinity ug PV
    6. Sigma 27.2:
      CARS 05: Salinity ug
      CARS 09: Salinity ug PV
  3. Sections of the NGCU near Rossel Same from Argo Atlas
  4. Zonal vertical sections:
    Salinity at 3°S: v1 v2
    Oxygen: 3°S, 25-27.5 3°S, 21-28 2°S, 25-27.5
  5. Oxygen (CARS 06):
    1. Sections on 165°E:
      On depth: Full section Detail Overlay sigma
      On density Overlay salinity
    2. Maps: On sigma 26.5 Salinity and oxygen on 26.5
    3. Error stats: Number of data pts (profiles?) Estimated map error of mean
    4. 165°E sections on density (details): ug Oxygen Oxygen, overlay ug contours
    5. Line plots of oxygen and ug by isopycnal and longitude:
      1. 165°E: 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 26.4 26.5 26.6 26.7 26.8 26.9 27.0 27.2
      2. 180°: 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 26.4 26.5 26.6 26.7 26.8 26.9 27.0 27.2
        Extra: show salinity and oxygen together at 165°E, sigma 26.5
3. Surtropac (42 cruises on 165°E, 1984-94):
  1. Mean ug sections: On (y,z) On sigma On sigma, overlay salinity
  2. ug on sigma 26.5: Surtropac, Argo, CARS
  3. Salt on isopycnals. Compare Surtropac, Argo, CARS: 26.5 26.6 26.7 26.8 26.9 27.0
4. WODB oxygen data:
  1. Solomon Sea profile locations: CTD Bottle
  2. Solomon Sea oxygen at sigma 26.5: CTD Bottle
  3. Oxygen dot-maps on isopycnals for 145°E-172°E, 15°S-Equator:
    1. Version 1 (smaller region, specified levels): CTD and bottle data CTD data only Salinity
    2. Version 2 (larger region, 3RMS levels): CTD and bottle data salinity
  4. Extract the cruise TEW (July 1987):
    1. Cruise track showing CTDO profile locations
    2. TEW sections Rossel-New Georgia:
      T S Sigma Oxygen Oxygen, overlay sigma CARS 06 gridded oxygen ug
5. WODB salinity data on isoycnals:
  Note: must use actual depths! Standard depths are unrealistic!
  1. Argo salinity:
    1. Custom levels: 24.0 24.5 25.0 25.5 26.0 26.5 26.5 (b) 26.9 27.2 26.5 C.S. only
    2. Automatic levels: 26.0 26.5 26.9 27.2 26.5 C.S. only
  2. OSD and CTD salinity:
    1. Large area: 25.5 26.0 26.5 27.2
    2. Detail (26.5): v1 v2
  3. WODB locations/dates:
    By year: CTD CTD detail OSD OSD detail
    All: CTD
    OSD profile dates (cumulative)
    Shipboard data count by year (S on sigma 26.5) (check ranges)
  4. CARS circulation:
    1. Streamlines on 26.5 Overlay salinity
    2. CARS salinity and vg on 14.5°S
  5. Coral Sea bathymetry
  6. Old WODB plots using standard depths (unrealistic, ignore):
    25.5 26.0 26.2 26.5 26.7 26.9 27.2
    OSD only: 25.5 25.5 27.2 CTD only
6. Sections defining a box around the Coral Sea
  1. Early ones (test single sections): 162°E 10.5°S 9.5°S 14°S 14°S (b)
7. Argo float trajectories in the Coral Sea
  => Find all floats that ever entered the region 140°E-170°E, 30°S-0°
  1. Bathymetry of the Coral Sea
  2. Overview of trajectories: All Regional detail
  3. Trajectories by source: AOML CSIRO Coriolis JMA
  4. Trajectories of parking depths within 800-1200m
  5. All parking depths: Shade Dots Dots on map (v6)
  6. Details within each group: Coriolis CSIRO JMA
  7. Grounded flags
  8. Individual trajectories, sorted various ways (checking bad ones):
    1. All floats that ever entered 150°E-162.5°E, 11°S-5°S
      (with details of some bad ones)
    2. Checking some high-speed trajectories (100 fastest speeds, sorted)
    3. Float vectors within the Solomon Sea (11)
  9. Argo parking depths
  10. Float-drift velocity components (raw): Zonal Meridional
  11. Floats that drifted to (2) or through (1) Vitiaz St
  12. Referencing the Argo float-drift velocities to 1000m:
    1. Mapped velocities (SC)
    2. Compare drift-referenced vs pure ug:
      ug: 500m 750m 1000m 1250m vg: 500m 750m
      ug lineplots along 165°E
    3. CARS sfc ug rel 1000m
    4. Merged u along 161°E on density (overlay salinity)
    5. Queensland Passage transport
    6. Transport south of Tagula, Louisiades
    7. "Movies" (sequential maps of merged velocity in depth or density: save and flip through)
Relevant glider figures:
1. Back to main Solomon Sea glider page
2. Mission 10 salinity relative to mission-mean S on each isopycnal
3. Salinity between Guadalcanal and New Caledonia (2005 and 2007)
  1. Mission 1: Salinity on isopycnals Salinity at 600m Sigmatheta at 600m
  2. Mission 2: Salinity on isopycnals