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A list of all pages that have property "Extended data description" with value "The global Mixed Layer Depth (MLD) Climatologies available here are computed from more than 5 million inspanidual profiles obtained from the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), from the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) database, and from the ARGO program. Those are all the high vertical resolution data available since 1941 until 2008, including mechanical bathythermograph (MBT), expendable bathythermograph (XBT), conductivity-temperature-depth probes (CTD), and profiling floats (PFL). The MLDs are estimated directly on inspanidual profiles with data at observed levels. The MLD is defined through the threshold method with a finite difference criterion from a near-surface reference value. A linear interpolation between levels is then used to estimate the exact depth at wich the difference criterion is reached. The reference depth is set at 10 m to avoid a large part of the strong diurnal cycle in the top few meters of the ocean. The optimal temperature criterion is found to be 0.2 °C absolute difference from surface. The optimal one in density is 0.03 kg/m3 difference from surface. Reduction of the data is done on a regular 2° by 2° grid for every month, by taking the median of all MLDs in each grid mesh. A slight smoothing is then applied to take account of the noisy nature of ship observations. The last step consisted into an optimal prediction of the missing data using ordinary kriging method. This interpolation was limited to a 1000 km radius disk containing at least 5 grid point values, leaving regions without values instead of filled by a doubtful interpolation. The advantage of kriging is that it is an exact interpolator, and an estimation error in the form of the kriging standard deviation, an analogy to the statistical standard deviation, is also provided.". Since there have been only a few results, also nearby values are displayed.

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Data:MLD + (The global Mixed Layer Depth (MLD) Climato … The global Mixed Layer Depth (MLD) Climatologies available here are computed from more than 5 million individual profiles obtained from the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), from the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) database, and from the ARGO program. Those are all the high vertical resolution data available since 1941 until 2008, including mechanical bathythermograph (MBT), expendable bathythermograph (XBT), conductivity-temperature-depth probes (CTD), and profiling floats (PFL).</br></br>The MLDs are estimated directly on individual profiles with data at observed levels. The MLD is defined through the threshold method with a finite difference criterion from a near-surface reference value. A linear interpolation between levels is then used to estimate the exact depth at wich the difference criterion is reached. The reference depth is set at 10 m to avoid a large part of the strong diurnal cycle in the top few meters of the ocean. The optimal temperature criterion is found to be 0.2 °C absolute difference from surface. The optimal one in density is 0.03 kg/m3 difference from surface.</br></br>Reduction of the data is done on a regular 2° by 2° grid for every month, by taking the median of all MLDs in each grid mesh. A slight smoothing is then applied to take account of the noisy nature of ship observations. The last step consisted into an optimal prediction of the missing data using ordinary kriging method. This interpolation was limited to a 1000 km radius disk containing at least 5 grid point values, leaving regions without values instead of filled by a doubtful interpolation. The advantage of kriging is that it is an exact interpolator, and an estimation error in the form of the kriging standard deviation, an analogy to the statistical standard deviation, is also provided.ical standard deviation, is also provided.)

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