The Interaction of the Throughflow with Small Scale Variability

Abstract

The long-term goal of this award is to understand the processes that control the generation, evolution and distribution of small-scale, time-dependent features within straits, and how these features interact with the large-scale sub-tidal throughflow within which they are embedded. The effort will focus on a multi-year time series from an ocean sensor array of moored ADCP and temperature-conductivity sensors, and pressure gauge observations in the internal straits of the Philippine seas. The aim is to characterize the spatial and temporal variability of the small-scale features and how they may vary seasonally to interannually as the remote and local (monsoonal) forcing changes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2008
Accession Number
ADA534058

Entities

People

  • Janet Sprintall

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Archipelagoes
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Frequency
  • Gages
  • High Resolution
  • Instrumentation
  • Islands
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Observation
  • Oceans
  • Personal Information Managers
  • Philippines
  • Pressure Gages
  • Sea Level
  • Site Selection

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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