Modeling the Wind and Buoyancy Driven Circulation and Ice Interaction in the Okhotsk Sea

Abstract

The main goal of this objective is to use coupled ocean-ice numerical models to study the basin scale ocean circulation and ocean-ice interaction in the Okhotsk Sea, and to examine important processes that maintain the unique oceanographic setting, such as the ODTL in this large marginal sea. We use a hierarchy of models, from a basin-averaged column model of ocean-ice interactions (Yang and Honjo, 1996) to a 3-D primitive equation ocean general circulation models coupled with a dynamical and thermodynamical sea-ice model. Meanwhile, we have analyzed some unpublished in situ observations (mainly hydrography records from the Japanese Hydrography Office), satellite SSM/I data of sea-ice concentration, and meteorological observations (from Comprehensive Ocean and Atmosphere Data Sets (COADS) and from the Japan Meteorology Agency) to examine ocean-ice interactions and mechanisms for interannual variations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 21, 1998
Accession Number
ADA353929

Entities

People

  • Jiayan Yang

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Temperature
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Atmospheres
  • Buoyancy
  • Classification
  • Equations
  • Hierarchies
  • High Temperature
  • Hydrography
  • North Pacific Ocean
  • Observation
  • Oceans
  • Okhotsk Sea
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Sea Ice
  • Three Dimensional
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Polar and Arctic Studies

Technology Areas

  • Space