California Coastal Offshore Transport and Diffusion Experiments - Meteorological Conditions and Data.

Abstract

Four series of tracer experiments have been performed to parameterize an overwater-coastal transport and diffusion model. The experiment were carried out in the winter and summer near Ventura, CA and Pismo beach, CA. The tracer gas SF6 was released from the research ship RV/Acania, which also collected and extensive amount of overwater meteorological data. This report contains descriptions of all experiments, the overwater meteorological data, and calculated meteorological parameters that are needed to characterize the transport and diffusion. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 06, 1982
Accession Number
ADA123582

Entities

People

  • C. A. Leonard
  • Christopher W. Fairall
  • D. E. Spiel
  • Gordon E. Schacher
  • Kenneth L. Davidson

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Analyzers
  • Boundary Layer
  • Coastal Regions
  • Continental Shelves
  • Data Acquisition
  • Diffusion
  • Measurement
  • Meteorological Data
  • Meteorology
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Recording Systems
  • Research Facilities
  • Sea Breeze
  • Turbulence
  • Water Vapor

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aquatic Ecology
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers