An Observing System Simulation Experiment for the Western North Pacific Region

Figure 1

Subsampling region (color) adopted as the result of an adjoint sensitivity analysis [11]. Color shading is the typical temperature pattern at a depth of 300 m in this region. The blue asterisk denotes the point where the remote effect of changes in the subsampled data was evaluated (see Section 3 for details). The representativeness of the vertical structure of the salinity field was assessed along the gray line at 180° (see Figure 4).