<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Dr. Ou, </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for sharing the data summary—it was very helpful! I’m currently looking for a time series dataset of Arctic Ocean surface currents (preferably, spanning multiple years). As I was analyzing Arctic near-surface kinematics in ECCOv4r4, I observed that the sea ice drift appears to be faster than in some observational records. To better understand this bias, I’m now comparing ECCOv4r4’s ocean surface velocity with observational datasets.<br><br>My hypothesis is that if the modeled ocean currents are also stronger than observed, it could suggest that wind momentum flux is overly influential in the model. On the other hand, if ECCOv4r4 currents are weaker than observations, it may indicate the presence of compensating processes or parameters that are moderating the wind drag.<br><br>I’ve already calculated the near-surface kinetic energy and compared it with in situ observations from von Appen et al. (2024). Initial results suggest that ECCOv4r4 underestimates the ocean kinetic energy.</div></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_mb85l4u20" alt="ocean_current_comparison.png" width="554" height="562"><br></div><div><br></div><div>I would greatly appreciate any recommendations or insights you might have regarding suitable datasets or relevant approaches for this comparison. I’m also cc’ing Dr. Ian here in case he has any suggestions to add.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Best,<div>_________________</div><div><b>Ashfaq Ahmed</b></div><div>Ph.D. Candidate</div><div>Center for Fluid Mechanics</div><div>Brown University</div><div>Providence, Rhode Island, USA 02912</div><div>website: <a href="http://ahmedashfaq.com" target="_blank">ahmedashfaq.com</a></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 11:41 AM Wang, Ou (US 329B) <<a href="mailto:ou.wang@jpl.nasa.gov">ou.wang@jpl.nasa.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg1047445494639111190">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Hi Ashfaq,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">The ECCO V4r4 synopsis (<a href="https://zenodo.org/records/4533349" target="_blank">https://zenodo.org/records/4533349</a>) has the list of observations used to constrain V4r4.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Best,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Ou<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Hi all!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">I have a quick question. I wanted to look for which data was assimilated in ECCOv4r4 to produce the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">It will be a great help. Thank you so much!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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