Observational and Modelling Studies of the California Current Mesoscale

Abstract

Our long-term goal is to describe, model, and predict the California Current mesoscale through analysis of observations and through modelling. Our scientific objectives are to use measurements from the Eastern Boundary Currents (EBC) field experiment and a quasigeostrophic (QG) model to describe and predict the dynamical balances of nonlinear eddies observed in the California Current System (CCS).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA538277

Entities

People

  • Pearn P. Niiler
  • Teresa K. Chereskin

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Anticyclones
  • Boundaries
  • California
  • Continental Slopes
  • Deep Water
  • Dynamics
  • Fluids
  • Geographic Regions
  • Information Operations
  • Measurement
  • Observation
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Offshore
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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