Acquisition of an Underway CTD System for the Flow Encountering Abrupt Topography DRI

Abstract

Strong westward flow in the North Equatorial Current (NEC) encounters tall, steep, submarine topography and islands. During the Flow Encountering Abrupt Topography (FLEAT) DRI, investigators will determine:Whether appreciable energy/momentum is lost from the large-scale NEC flow to smaller scales and through which processes?What limits numerical models/state estimates from making accurate statistical/deterministic predictions at <10 km resolution around submarine topography and islands? How can we improve them?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2015
Accession Number
AD1014383

Entities

People

  • S. Johnston

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Assimilation
  • Conductivity
  • Frequency
  • Measurement
  • Momentum
  • Observation
  • Oceans
  • Richardson Number
  • Ships
  • Submarines
  • Topography
  • Underwater Acoustics

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography