! levitus_demo.jnl *jd* 11/91 2/95 ! *acm* 7/01 change uppercase GO LAND to GO land ! Description: explores the Climatological Atlas of the World Ocean ! This demonstration explores the Climatological Atlas of the World Ocean, ! actually a subset of it, compiled by Sydney Levitus. The present data set ! contains the annual average value of ocean temperature and salinity at 20 ! levels to 5000 meters, over the world ocean. ! Advanced use of FERRET commands in the demo will give you helpful examples ! of their use. See the User's Guide for more on individual commands. SET MODE VERIFY SET DATA levitus_climatology SHOW DATA levitus_climatology ! The data set is 1x1 degree in lat-lon resolution. ! Let's check out the vertical grid -- MESSAGE SHOW GRID/Z TEMP MESSAGE ! Let's first display the sea surface temperature and salinity over the globe CANCEL REGION SET WIND/SIZE=.6/ASPECT=.86 PPL CROSS 1 ! This PPL command causes a line to be drawn at the equator PALETTE rainbow SHADE/K=1 TEMP MESSAGE ! Or, looking at the structure of the temperature field more closely -- SHADE/K=1/LEV=(-2,32,1) TEMP ! You can note -- ! The `cold tongue' in the eastern equatorial Pacific, the western ! Pacific equatorial warm pool, the effects of the gulf stream in the ! NE Atlantic at about 60 North and that in the subtropics surface ! temperatures are greater in the west than in the east. MESSAGE SHADE/K=1 SALT MESSAGE ! The levels chosen for salinity are not the best -- let's change them SHADE/K=1/LEV=(0,49,3)(33,37,.4) SALT ! In surface salinity you can note -- ! Higher salinity in the centers of the subtropical gyres. ! The difference in salinity between the Mediterranean and the Baltic. ! Low salinity in river outflows: the Amazon, Congo and Ganges. MESSAGE ! Now overlay the two fields and outline the land masses SHADE/K=1/LEV=(-2,32,2) TEMP CONTOUR/OVER/K=1/LEV=(0,49,3)(33,37,.4) SALT GO land ! The relationship between surface temperature and salinity is not simple. MESSAGE ! Now let's look deeper -- but also retain this view, and the same levels ! for comparison SET WINDOW/CLEAR SET WINDOW/SIZE=.4 2 ! Open a second window smaller than the present one SHADE/K=1/LEV=(-2,32,2) TEMP CONTOUR/OVER/K=1/LEV=(0,49,3)(33,37,.4) SALT GO land SET WINDOW 1 SHADE/Z=200/LEV=(-2,32,2) TEMP CONTOUR/OVER/Z=200/LEV=(0,49,3)(33,37,.4) SALT GO land ! Note at 200 meters temperature and salinity are more closely related. MESSAGE ! And now a meridional slice -- first in the Atlantic FILL/X=30W/LEV=(-2,32,2) TEMP CONTOUR/OVER/X=30W/LEV=(0,49,3)(33,37,.4) SALT ! The warm subtropical gyres are evident here; there is correlation between ! temperature and salinity, and note the Antarctic Intermediate Water's ! strong signal in salinity near 60 South at the surface, extending ! equatorward around 1000 meters. MESSAGE ! And then in the Pacific FILL/X=180W/LEV=(-2,32,2) TEMP CONTOUR/OVER/X=180W/LEV=(0,49,3)(33,37,.4) SALT MESSAGE ! T-S diagrams may be constructed with a single "sounding" PLOT/VS/LINE/X=20W/Y=35N SALT,TEMP ! Illustrating the general monotonic decrease of temperature with depth. This ! is in general true of salinity too but note here around 10 degrees Celsius ! salinity increases -- due to inflow at depth into the Atlantic of ! higher salinity Mediterranean water. MESSAGE ! Or using multiple soundings over a selected area REPEAT/X=22W:20W REPEAT/Y=30N:32N PLOT/VS/LINE/OVER SALT,TEMP MESSAGE ! Alternatively PLOT/VS/X=22W:20W/Y=30N:32N/SYMBOL=26 SALT,TEMP MESSAGE ! And water masses at different levels can be compared SET VIEW UL PLOT/VS/X=25W:20W/Y=30N:35N/Z=0/SYMBOL=18 SALT,TEMP SET VIEW UR PLOT/VS/X=25W:20W/Y=30N:35N/Z=50/SYMBOL=18 SALT,TEMP SET VIEW LL PLOT/VS/X=25W:20W/Y=30N:35N/Z=100/SYMBOL=18 SALT,TEMP SET VIEW LR PLOT/VS/X=25W:20W/Y=30N:35N/Z=200/SYMBOL=18 SALT,TEMP MESSAGE CANCEL VIEWPORT CANCEL WINDOW 2 PPL CROSS 0