http://doi.org/10.7289/V5D21VM9

This paper describes the East Asian Seas Regional Climatology documenting spatial and temporal distribution of temperature and salinity on 1°, 1/4°, and 1/10° latitude-longitude grids. The temperature and salinity data fields used to generate these climatologies were computed by objective analysis of all quality-controlled data from the World Ocean Database 2013. Highresolution climatologies (especially 1/10°) reveal numerous meso-scale features such as water masses, fronts, and river outflows. These features are described in the context of the general oceanography of the study region and compared with in situ observations of the same features reported in the oceanographic literature. The feature-centric approach is shown to be a powerful instrument for validation of the East Asian Seas Regional Climatology and, by extension, of other regional climatologies.

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