Impact of Argo Observation on the Regional Ocean Reanalysis of China Coastal Waters and Adjacent Seas: A Twin-Experiment Study

Figure 1

Distributions of “observations” used in reanalysis twin experiments from January 2005 to December 2008: (a), (c), and (e) are temperature “observations”; (b), (d), and (f) are salinity “observations.” (a) and (b) are for all “observations”; (c) and (d) “conventional observations”; (e) and (f) “Argo observations.” Color square represents the number of profiles.

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