A Partnership for Modeling the Marine Environment of Puget Sound, Washington

Abstract

Puget Sound, Washington, is both the largest fjord in the lower forty-eight states and closest to the substantial urban centers of Seattle, Tacoma, Everett and surrounding communities. The sound has seasonally high annual phytoplankton standing stock and primary production, and they support several economically valuable fisheries. Our long-term goals are to develop quantitative understanding of the Sound's circulation and marine ecosystem, and of the sensitivity of the physical and the biological system to natural and human perturbations; and to develop models of Puget Sound that can aid agencies with responsibilities for environmental management in making informed decisions and serve as marine science education tools.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA509409

Entities

People

  • Allan Devol
  • Bruce Nairn
  • Frederick R. Stahr
  • Jan Newton
  • Mark Warner
  • Miles Logsdon
  • Mitsuhiro Kawase
  • Pengfei Wang
  • Randy Shuman
  • Robert K. Johnston
  • Skip Albertson
  • W. P. Winn

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Data Management
  • Ecosystems
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Environmental Assessment
  • Environmental Management
  • Fish
  • National Security
  • Natural Resources
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Puget Sound
  • Quality Of Life
  • Simulations
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aquatic Ecology
  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers