FW2015 Original Data Format

This is a different beast but similar to RAPID in that it has components which represent transport for different segments of the array (like Gulf Stream, Ekman and upper-mid-ocean) where these sum to produce MOC. This is vaguely like OSNAP east and OSNAP west, except I don’t think those sum to produce the total overturning. And Ekman could be part of a layer transport but here is has no depth reference. Gulf Stream has longitude bounds and a single latitude (LATITUDE, LONGITUDE_BOUND) and limits over which the depths are represented (DEPTH_BOUND?) but no N_LEVELS. It doesn’t quite make sense to call the dimension N_PROF since these aren’t profiles. Maybe N_COMPONENT?

Summary of FW2015 files:

  • MOCproxy_for_figshare_v1.mat

    • TIME: dimension TIME (264,), type datetime

    • MOC_PROXY: dimension TIME, units Sv

    • EK: dimension TIME, units Sv

    • GS: dimension TIME, units Sv

    • UMO_PROXY: dimension TIME, units Sv

Potential reformats:

  • Overturning:

    • MOC: time series (dimension: TIME)

  • Component transports:

    • Dimensions: TIME, N_COMPONENT (1404, 7)

    • Coordinates: LATITUDE, LONGITUDE_BOUNDS (scalar, x2), TIME in datetime. N_COMPONENT for the number of components.

    • Variables: TRANSPORT (TIME, N_COMPONENT) - This would also have TRANSPORT_NAME (N_COMPONENT, string) to indicate what the component is (e.g. EK, GS, LNADW, MOC, MOC_PROXY, UMO_GRID, UMO_PROXY, UNADW_GRID, etc). Note that some of these were just copies of what the RAPID time series was at the time.