edu.ucar.opensky::technotes:211 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-26T17:39:25.909116 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7cz36j0 Estimation of Spatial Covariances From the Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7cz36j0 https://doi.org/10.5065/D6DZ067X McWilliams, J. author Owens, W. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher The Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment (MODE) was an attempt to observe mesoscale ocean eddies in the western North Atlantic, primarily during the spring of 1973. A variety of measurement techniques were utilized. Using data from freely drifting Sofar floats and from hydrographic casts, the authors estimated the spatial covariance functions and the associated variance spectra. To make these functions physically acceptable, they performed smoothing by averaging in wave-number space; azimuthal averages of these smoothed functions yielded estimates of isotropic covariances. Finally, they fitted analytic functional forms to the isotropic covariances for subsequent use in objective analyses. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Ocean circulation theme U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Global Change Master Directory GCMD 2021-09-17 revision 11.2 NASA Global Change Master Directory originator Valids List: Science and Services Keywords Copyright Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. None eng geoscientificInformation