Assessing the Impact of GODAE Boundary Conditions on the Estimate and Prediction of the Monterey Bay and California Central Coast Circulation

Abstract

The practical demonstration of basin-scale ocean state estimation has been realized through the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) whose projects provide complete descriptions of the temperature, salinity, and velocity structure of the global ocean. The ocean circulation, temperature and salinity distributions of coastal regions are characterized by smaller scale processes typically not resolved by basin-scale estimates of the ocean structure. The overarching of this project is to assess the impact of the large-scale ocean structure (as produced by GODAE), when used in conjunction with satellite observations, on the numerical prediction of the coastal ocean environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA515062

Entities

People

  • Andy M. Moore
  • Carl Wunsch
  • Christopher A. Edwards
  • Dave Foley
  • Frank B. Schwing
  • James D. Doyle

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Assimilation
  • Boundaries
  • California
  • Coastal Regions
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Education
  • Electronic Mail
  • Environment
  • Equations Of Motion
  • High Resolution
  • Ocean Currents
  • Oceans
  • Planetary Sciences
  • Regions
  • Weather Forecasting
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Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space