Characterizing Surface Transport Barriers in the South China Sea

Abstract

The long term goal of this project is to advance the state of the art in mathematical methods for detecting key transport structures in velocity field data sets for spatially complex, time-dependent, ocean surface flows. Such transport structures are typically not inherently obvious in snapshots of the Eulerian velocity field and require analysis methods with foundations in Lagrangian flow transport. Within the context of this DRI, a long term goal is to improve understanding of the formation and location of submesoscale fronts in the South China Sea (SCS).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2013
Accession Number
ADA601524

Entities

People

  • Thomas Peacock

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Data Sets
  • Engineering
  • Flow
  • Information Operations
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Oceans
  • Search And Rescue
  • South China Sea
  • Standards
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Surface Transportation
  • Transport Ships
  • Unsteady Flow

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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