Identification

Title

Estimation of Spatial Covariances From the Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment

Abstract

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.

Resource type

document

Resource locator

Unique resource identifier

code

https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7cz36j0

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

geoscientificInformation

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Text

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keyword set

keyword value

Ocean circulation

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2021-09-17

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Copyright Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

OpenSky Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Library

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

opensky@ucar.edu

web address

http://opensky.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

OpenSky Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Library

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

opensky@ucar.edu

web address

http://opensky.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2025-07-17T18:03:35.320427

Metadata language