Chapter 4 SODA Reanalysis Data

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The Simple Ocean Data Assimilation ocean/sea ice reanalysis (SODA) dataset was used as our reference dataset for three environmental variables: 1.) Sea Surface Salinity, 2.) Seafloor Temperature, & 3.) Seafloor Salinity.

4.1 Accessing Data

SODA monthly data were downloaded as annual NetCDF files from the University of Maryland server, using their linux wget commands.

4.2 Data Preparation