Poseidon Project – Toward Exascale Community Ocean Circulation Modeling

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Sea surface height near Australia in the LLC4320 dataset. From the Poseidon-viewer tool.

Southern hemisphere ocean trajectories

Lagrangian trajectories for drifting surface particles in the LLC4320 dataset. Computed using OceanSpy and OceInterp software tools. See Poseidon-share/gallery repo for notebooks.

Sea-surface salinity in the Bering Sea from the LLC4320 dataset. From the Poseidon-viewer tool.

Northern hemisphere ocean trajectories

Lagrangian trajectories for drifting surface particles in the LLC4320 dataset. Computed using Seaduck software. See Poseidon-share/gallery repo for notebooks.

Ocean temperature

Sea-surface temperature south of Africa in the LLC4320 dataset. From the Poseidon-viewer tool.

Ocean vorticity

Sea-surface relative vorticity in the LLC4320 dataset in the southeast Pacific Ocean. From the Poseidon-viewer tool.

Sea level

Southern hemisphere ocean trajectories

Southern hemisphere ocean trajectories

Ocean salinity

Northern hemisphere ocean trajectories

Northern hemisphere ocean trajectories

Ocean temperature

Ocean temperature

Ocean vorticity

Ocean vorticity

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