Atmospheric/Oceanic Interaction Studies

Abstract

The ultimate goal of this project is to improve our understanding of the interactions of the earth's atmosphere and ocean on the time scales ranging from days to seasons. This increased understanding is a precursor to the development of a global coupled system that will provide increased global forecast skill and high resolution initial and boundary data for the Navy' operational mesoscale coupled weather system, the Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS) and Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center's (FNMOC) ocean and wave models. We wish to develop procedures and strategies for coupling the Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS) to global ocean models and to determine the causes of the systematic errors of the coupled atmospheric/ocean model. Using the coupled NOGAPS system and a simpler coupled system, we wish to investigate the interaction and feedbacks between atmospheric heat and momentum forcing and global scale oceanic oscillations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1998
Accession Number
ADA539593

Entities

People

  • Timothy F. Hogan

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheres
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Boundaries
  • Climate Change
  • Couplings
  • Heat Energy
  • High Resolution
  • Latent Heat
  • Meteorology
  • Military Research
  • Navy
  • Oceans
  • Phase Transformations
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Surface Temperature
  • Transitions
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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