New high-resolution Southwest North Atlantic Regional Climatology

Ocean processes in the Southwest North Atlantic (SWNA) play an important role in long-term earth and ocean climate change. This region is also a resource-rich coastal zone with abundant fisheries and other material assets. Combined, the previously released NCEI Northwest Atlantic (NWA) regional climatology (RC) and newly developed SWNA RC provide complete coverage of the Gulf Stream system, which is the critical element of northward heat transport and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. The SWNA RC is a collection of high-resolution quality-controlled temperature and salinity fields on standard depth levels from the sea surface to 4,900 m depth. This RC is based on temperature and salinity observations from the 2018 release of the World Ocean Database. The coverage includes the years 1955 to 2017 by annual, seasonal, and monthly fields for the entire period, as well as for each of the six decades. All fields computed on three horizontal grids: 1°x1°, 1/4°x1/4°, and 1/10°x1/10° degree. The SWN...