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Hoffman, Lauren; Mazloff, Matthew R.; Gille, Sarah T.; Giglio, Donata (2021). Data from: Ocean Surface Salinity Response to Atmospheric River Precipitation in the California Current System. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0BV7GGW

Description

With the goal of understanding the ocean's surface salinity response to precipitation from atmospheric rivers, these data include oceanic values for salinity and temperature; and atmospheric values of precipitation, wind speed, specific humidity, air temperature, and long and shortwave radiation.

The file contains data from five different data sources:
(1) European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Reanalysis (ERA5);
(2) Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO)-generated AR catalog, the SIO-R1 AR catalog;
(3) California Underwater Glider Network (CUGN) Spray Glider along Line 66.7;
(4) Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) M1 Mooring;
(5) Modeled outputs from a one-dimensional configuration of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology General Circulation Model (MITgcm);

Several steps were taken to process the data to produce various figure and model inputs. The files and descriptive file paths for these are included here.

Creation Date

• 1992 to 2019

Date Issued

• 2021

Authors

• Giglio, Donata
• Gille, Sarah T.
• Hoffman, Lauren A.

Contributor

• Varadarajan, Aniruddh

Funding

Author funding:

MRM and STG were supported by NASA awards NNX16AH67G and 80NSSC20K1136.
DG and STG were supported by NASA award 80NSSC19K0059.
DG was supported by NSF EarthCube award 1928305.

Topics

• Atmospheric river
• California current system
• Freshwater lens
• Precipitation
• Surface salinity

Formats

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• data
• text

Language

• English

Identifier

Identifier: Donata Giglio: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3738-4293

Identifier: Lauren A. Hoffman: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9563-8925

Identifier: Matthew R. Mazloff: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1650-5850

Identifier: Sarah T. Gille: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9144-4368

Related Resources

Primary associated publication

• Hoffman, L., Mazloff, M. R., Gille, S. T., Giglio, D., & Varadarajan, A. (2022). Ocean Surface Salinity Response to Atmospheric River Precipitation in the California Current System, Journal of Physical Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-21-0272.1

Source data

• Catalog of landfalling atmospheric rivers along the western coast of North America: https://weclima.ucsd.edu/data-products/
• ERA5-Land hourly data from 1981 to present: http://doi.org/10.24381/cds.e2161bac
• M1 Mooring Historic Data, Monterey Bay, CA: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0130040
• Rudnick, D. (2016). California Underwater Glider Network [CUGN_line_66.nc]. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Instrument Development Group. https://doi.org/10.21238/S8SPRAY1618
• Rudnick, D. L., K. D. Zaba, R. E. Todd, and R. E. Davis, 2017: A climatology using data from the California Underwater Glider Network - Line 66 Projected on depth coordinate: Annual Anomaly & Interannual Anomaly. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Instrument Development Group. https://doi.org/10.21238/S8SPRAY7292

Software

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology General Circulation Model (MITgcm): https://mitgcm.org/

Reference

• Gershunov, A., T. Shulgina, F. M. Ralph, D. A. Lavers, and J. J. Rutz (2017), Assessing the climate-scale variability of atmospheric rivers affecting western North America, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074175