WP2 - ocean and ice sheet

Deliverables - data files and reports - on ocean/ sea-ice/ ice sheet.

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Documents and files:

• Document "D2.1.1-4_ Deliverable Sea Level.pdf" : Report about deliverables n°2.1.1 and 2.1.4
• Document "D2.1.3 Gridded time series of ocean mass variations from GRACE.pdf" : report about deliverable n°2.1.3

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Deliverables n°2.1.1 :

• File "D2.1.1_tide_gauges_time_series_CNRS_LEGOS.zip" : 65 good quality records from PSMSL, monthly data in ASCII files (.dat), corrected from Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (Ice-5G VM2, Peltier W.R., 2004) and Inverted Barometer, filtered from seasonal cycles and smoothed over 12 months. Person in charge : Olivier Henry and Anny Cazenave. Read "tide_gauges_informations.txt" for informations (coordinates, station name, country, units, ...). 

• File "D2.1.1_tide_gauges_time_series_CNRS_LEGOS_MEANS.zip": Means for Norway, Russia and whole Arctic region computed from above tide gauges records, monthly data in ASCII files (.dat), corrected from Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (Ice-5G VM2, Peltier W.R., 2004) and Inverted Barometer, filtered from seasonal cycles and smoothed over 12 months. Person in charge : Olivier Henry and Anny Cazenave. . Read "tide_gauges_informations _NORWAY. xt", "tide_gauges_informations_RUSSIA.xt" and "tide_gauges_informations _ARCTIC.txt" for informations.

• File "D2.1.1_arctic_altimetric_grids.zip": see in dataset section

• File "D2.1.1_past_sea_level_reconstruction_1958_2006_V1.tar.gz" : gridded past sea level reconstruction time series for the period 1958 - 2006.  2 ascii files : the grid (format : [lon,lat,time serie], mm) and the time vector of the grid.

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Deliverables n°2.1.3 :

• File "D2.1.3_GRACE_arctic_ocean_mass_time_series_2002-2010.tar.gz" :  Ocean mass component of the Arctic Ocean computed from GRACE data (CSR),  from August 2002 to december 2010. Seasonal cycles have been removed. This package contains 3 directories : one for EOF, one for trend maps and one for 2 ascii files : the grid (format : [lon,lat,time serie], mm) and the time vector of the grid.

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Deliverables n°2.1.4 :

• File "D2.1.4_halosteric_gridded_time_series_ISHII_1970-2009.tar.gz" :  Halosteric sea level in Artic area computed using salinity data (Ishii et Kimoto database, 2009) from surface down to 700m for long period (1970-2009). Seasonal cycles have been removed. This package contains 2 ascii files : the grid (format : [lon,lat,temporal serie], mm) and the time vector of the grid.

• File "D2.1.4_halosteric_gridded_time_series_ISHII_1993-2009.tar.gz" : Halosteric sea level in Artic area computed using salinity data (Ishii et Kimoto database 2009) from surface down to 700m for altimetry period (1993-2009). Seasonal cycles have been removed. This package contains 2 ascii files : the grid (format : [lon,lat,temporal serie], mm) and the time vector of the grid.

• File "D2.1.4_thermosteric_gridded_time_series_ISHII_1993-2009.tar.gz" : Thermosteric sea level in Artic area computed using temperature data (Ishii et Kimoto database, 2009) from surface down to 700m for altimetry period (1993-2009). Seasonal cycles have been removed. This package contains 2 ascii files : the grid (format : [lon,lat,temporal serie], mm) and the time vector of the grid.

• File "D2.1.4_thermosteric_gridded_time_series_ISHII_1970-2009.tar.gz" : Thermosteric sea level in Artic area computed using temperature data (Ishii et Kimoto database, 2009) from surface down to 700m for the well covered period (1970-2009). Seasonal cycles have been removed. This package contains 2 ascii files : the grid (format : [lon,lat,temporal serie], mm) and the time vector of the grid.

• File "D2.1.4_thermosteric_gridded_time_series_NOAA_1970-2009.tar.gz" : Thermosteric sea level in Artic area computed using temperature data (World Ocean Database 2009) from surface down to 700m for the well covered period (1970-2009). Seasonal cycles have been removed. This package contains 2 ascii files : the grid (format : [lon,lat,temporal serie], mm) and the time vector of the grid.

• File "D2.1.4 _thermosteric_time_series_at_tide_gauges_locations_ISHII.zip" : This package contains all time series extracted from thermosteric grids computed with Ishii et al temperature data at each norwegian tide gauges location. Time series have been smoothed over 12 months, corrected for GIA, inverse barometer and seasonal cycles.

• File "D2.1.4_steric_gridded_time_series_EN3_1950-2009.zip" : Complete steric sea level in Artic area computed using temperature ans salinity data (EN3 database from Met Office Hadley Center) from surface down to 700m for the whole period (1950-2009). Seasonal cycles have been removed. This package contains 636 files (format : NetCDF), one file for one month. Each file contains 6 variables : LatLon, LatLonMin (minimum for latitude and longitude), LatLonStep (step between each latitude and longitude, grid resolution), NbLatitudes (all latitudes from 50 to 89°N), NbLongitudes (all longitudes from 0 to 359°E) and Grid_0001 (the steric sea level grid, lines for longitude, columns for latitude, cm).

 

* Surface elevation, Greenland ice sheet, radar altimetry (ERS1, ERS‐2, Envisat) - April 1992 – December 2008. D2.3.1 File: dH_ERSEnvisat_1992‐2008.txt.  Documentation: D.2.3.1.ERSEnvisatHeightChangeGrid.pdf




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Deliverables n°2.6.4 :

• File "D2.6.4_GRACE_signals_from_freshwater_flux_pulses.tar.gz" : Freshwater fluxes computed with GRACE data (3 studied database : CSR, GFZ, GRGS) in equivalent sea level (mm) and in term of mass (ice mass loss, Gt), corrected for seasonal cycles, for Greenland and Antarctica (complimentary materials). Temporal coverage : from 2003 to 2011. Person in charge : Olivier Henry and Anny Cazenave. Read "xxxx.pdf" for informations (upload in standby).
  
• D2.6.4 DTU. File DTU_GRACE+GAD_solution_DDK3 (data). DTU_GRACE+GAD_ArticOc (plots); README_D264 (readme file)