On the mesoscale monitoring capability of Argo floats in the Mediterranean Sea

Sánchez-Román, Antonio; Ruiz, Simón; Pascual, Ananda; Mourre, Baptiste; Guinehut, Stéphanie

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-223-2017

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-223-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-223-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

Research article

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29 Mar 2017

Research article |

| 29 Mar 2017

On the mesoscale monitoring capability of Argo floats in the Mediterranean Sea

Antonio Sánchez-Román, Simón Ruiz, Ananda Pascual, Baptiste Mourre, and Stéphanie Guinehut

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RC1: 'comment “On the mesoscale monitoring capability of Argo floats in the Mediterranean Sea” by Sanchez-Roman et al.2016', Anonymous Referee #1, 20 Oct 2016
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer 1', Antonio Sánchez Román, 13 Jan 2017
RC2: 'Report on "On the Mesoscale Monitoring Capability of Argo Floats in the Mediterranean Sea" by Sanchez-Roman et al', Anonymous Referee #2, 16 Dec 2016
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer 2', Antonio Sánchez Román, 13 Jan 2017

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (07 Mar 2017) by Andreas Sterl

Short summary

In this work we investigate the capability of the Argo array in the Mediterranean Sea to capture mesoscale circulation structures (diameter of around 150 km). To do that we conduct several experiments to simulate different spatial sampling configurations of the Argo array in the basin. Results show that the actual Argo array in the Mediterranean (2° × 2°) might be enlarged until a spatial resolution of nearly 75 × 75 km (450 floats) in order to capture the mesoscale signal.