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- Preparation of the averaged MEDATLAS Climatology
- Processing of the climatological temperature and salinity
- QC of the standard deviations
PROCESSINGProcessing is necessary to : prepare the best manageable climatology prepare the Redfield ratio test for nutrients interpolate the data to standard levels before performing the analysis Preparation of the averaged MEDATLAS ClimatologyAccording to the QC workshop discussion (12), it was decided to adapt the MEDATLAS 97 climatology to make it usable for the quality checks. The result should be 1x1 degree mean profiles of temperature and salinity and corresponding standard deviations. Processing of the climatological temperature and salinityThe temperature and salinity ¼ square degrees have been averaged in 1 degree square boxes. Processing of the standard deviationsThe maximum value of the ¼ square degree standard deviation found in the 1 square degree box has been taken as the resulting standard deviation. However the results were not satisfactory because obviously too high or too low values were found in some sub-regions. It was therefore necessary to apply some QC on the standard deviations before the selection. As a result not all the means were associated with standard deviation estimates and interpolations/extrapolations have been necessary. The values outside of the following envelope of maximum and minimum values have been rejected before processing :
On the following figures, test of values for the annual standard deviations compared with min-max envelope, and the same for seaonal1 (winter, minimum of variability) and season 3 (summer, maximum of variability).        
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