Atlas of Oceanographic Data for Colombia 1922-2013. Temperature, salinity, density, geostrophic velocity
Original (non-English) name
Atlas de los datos oceanográficos de Colombia 1922-2013. Temperatura, salinidad, densidad, velocidad geostrófica
Acronym
Citation
Andrade, C.A., O.E. Rangel y E. Herrera. Atlas de los Datos Oceanográficos de Colombia 1922-2013 Temperatura, Salinidad, Densidad, Velocidad
Geostrófica. (Formato impreso y aplicativo digital). Dirección General Marítima-Ecopetrol S.A. Ed. Dimar. Bogotá, Colombia. 117 pp. 2015.
Abstract
This document consists of a description of the treatment, processing and analysis of oceanographic data collected by the Colombian Navy and General Maritime Directorate in the Caribbean and Pacific waters of Colombia and neighboring basins, supplemented with data from the NODC database. The analysis is presented in maps of horizontal distributions for climatological fields of temperature, salinity, density and dynamic topographies at standard depths and calculations of geostrophic velocity in vertical profiles, based on data averaged in a grid of ½ degree of latitude and longitude. The purpose of the maps is to illustrate the characteristics of the distributions of these parameters in both basins. After comprehensive quality control of all available data, the fields used to generate climatological maps were calculated by analyzing statistics at 17 standard depths and plotted using DataInterpolating Variational Analysis (DIVA) for the printed material and using Optimal Interpolation for the digital application. Maps of mean distributions are presented for the overall data set and for decadal, annual, seasonal and monthly averages with corresponding standard deviations and standard error at standard depths down to 2500 m.