Exploring Marine Thermohaline Waves

Marine Thermohaline Waves

Hobday et al 2016

Buoy 44008

Buoy 44008

Copernicus forecast data

Buoy and Copernicus

Wave event

Given a long timeseries, an event is defined if…

• 5+ days of measure below 10th or above 90th percentile of the long term daily value

• <3 day gaps between events pools events into one

• longterm means multi-decade

Computing 10th and 90th quantile envelope for each day of year

Identify Wave Events - Copernicus

Identify Wave Events - Buoy 44008

Copernicus and Buoy 4408 events