Shallow Water Climatology and Analysis with Application to the Adriatic Sea

Abstract

This exploratory study will: * Investigate new techniques for constructing climatologies in regions dominated by strong, episodic small- and meso-scale features, including compositing schemes based on dynamical regimes and retention of additional metrics for quantifying variability and errors. * Extend the climatology with analysis products that employ remotely sensed and in situ measurements, climatological data and a priori assumptions regarding regional and temporal variations in the governing dynamics to produce estimates of instantaneous fields. * Investigate how climatologies and analysis products might be used to optimize the deployment of limited in-situ sampling resources. * Assemble archived data and develop a climatology for the Northern Adriatic Sea. This region will be used as a testbed for evaluating the techniques developed in the course of this study.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2003
Accession Number
ADA620402

Entities

People

  • Craig Lee

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Adriatic Sea
  • Assimilation
  • Climatology
  • Convection
  • Dynamics
  • Environment
  • Errors
  • Measurement
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Sampling
  • Shallow Water
  • Stratification
  • Three Dimensional
  • Water
  • Wind
  • Wind Velocity

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Regression Analysis.