[MITgcm-support] Magnitude and alignment of ocean current

[Klymak Jody]

Hi Robert.

The GCM is a model, so has only so much to do with reality.  

I think that the best one right now is OSCAR, but likely others here know better.

http://www.oscar.noaa.gov/

You should be able to download their products.

Cheers,  Jody


On 2012-01-10, at 6:31 AM, Robert Harsono Ong wrote:

> Dear MITGcm Users,
> 
> My apology in posting such novice question here. I'm wondering if MITGCM can be used to obtain information of both magnitude and direction of ocean current at particular lat and long. Another alternative is reading them straight from satellite images, however, most of their resolutions are poor and the grid size is quite large (5 deg by 5 deg) and spotting them from images do not seem to be very scientific. If these sort of information are obtainable within MITGCM, then could you please recommend tutorial problem specific to this?
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Robert
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Jody Klymak, Assistant Professor, SEOS and Physics & Astronomy, U. of Victoria
jklymak at uvic.ca