Regional climatology of the East Asian Seas : an introduction

This paper describes the East Asian Seas Regional Climatology documenting spatial and temporal distribution of temperature and salinity on 1°, 1/4°, and 1/10° latitude-longitude grids. The temperature and salinity data fields used to generate these climatologies were computed by objective analysis of all quality-controlled data from the World Ocean Database 2013. Highresolution climatologies (especially 1/10°) reveal numerous meso-scale features such as water masses, fronts, and river outflows. These features are described in the context of the general oceanography of the study region and compared with in situ observations of the same features reported in the oceanographic literature. The feature-centric approach is shown to be a powerful instrument for validation of the East Asian Seas Regional Climatology and, by extension, of other regional climatologies. Daphne R. Johnson, Tim P. Boyer ; [editor: Dan Seidov ; technical editor: Alexey Mishonov]. "December 2015." Dataset doi:10.7289/V5MP5171. Includes bibliographical references (pages 25-30). 2015 NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) Library http://doi.org/10.7289/V5D21VM9 Public Domain 2286