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ECCO Estimates of Large-scale Changes at the Hawaii Ocean Time-series Station | 
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D. Stammer, S. Park, A. Koehl, R. Lukas, and F. Santiago-Mandujano  | 
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A comparison of ECCO ocean estimates is being provided | 
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with independent observations at the HOT deep-water station. | 
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The goal is to compare and identify similar inter-annual changes in | 
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the HOT observations and use the ECCO estimates to infer their | 
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origin.  Based on the ECCO WOCE synthesis, a complete balance of | 
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temperature and salinity  (freshwater) anomalies will be provided | 
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at the HOT station to help interpret the local time series | 
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measurements as a function of depth. In addition we will use the  | 
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adjoint framework to identify the area (in space and time) that  | 
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can in principle be influenced by the HOT measurements in a  | 
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dynamically consistent assimilation framework. | 
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