A Coastal Air-Ocean Coupled System (CAOCS) Evaluated Using an Airborne Expendable Bathythermograph (AXBT) Data Set

Abstract

A coastal atmosphere-ocean coupled system (CAOCS) is developed with Princeton Ocean Model (POM) as the oceanic component, and with National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) regional climate model (RegCM2) as the atmospheric component. The model domain (98.84 121.16 E, 3.06 S 25.07 N) covers the whole SCS and surrounding land and islands. The surface fluxes of water, heat (excluding solar radiation), and momentum are applied synchronously with opposite signs in the atmosphere and ocean. Flux adjustments are not used. The CAOCS model was verified using an intensive airborne expendable bathythermograph (AXBT) survey between 14 25 May 1995 over the majority of the SCS down to about 300-m depth.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA479871

Entities

People

  • Peter Cheng Chu
  • Shihua Lü
  • Yuchun Chen

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airborne
  • Bathythermographs
  • Climate Change
  • Data Sets
  • Expendable
  • Geography
  • Grids
  • Isotherms
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Ridges
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • South China Sea
  • South Vietnam
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Terrain
  • Topography

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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