Upper Ocean Heat and Momentum Budgets in an Eastern Boundary Current.

Abstract

As part of the ONR ARI on Eastern Boundary Currents we: (1) Built, deployed and recovered a meteorological buoy, with downward-looking ADCP current meter and a thermistor string during the 1-year field season, then QC'ed the data and made it available; (2) collected satellite surface temperature data, along with satellite altimeter data, and made the data available to those in the project; (3) used the ADCP current data to evaluate the quality of the altimeter data; (4) used the altimeter data to characterize the seasonal evolution of the mesoscale circulation field.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 28, 1997
Accession Number
ADA328943

Entities

People

  • P. T. Strub

Organizations

  • Oregon State University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altimeters
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • California
  • Continental Shelves
  • Data Analysis
  • Flow Fields
  • Information Operations
  • Layers
  • Meteorological Instruments
  • Military Research
  • Momentum
  • Oceans
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Surface Temperature

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Oceanography.

Technology Areas

  • Space