Nonhydrostatic Modeling of West Florida Shelf Flow and Tracers

Abstract

The long range scientific goal of the Oceanic Planetary Boundary Layer (OPBL) Laboratory is to understand the role of the OPBL in the coupled exchange of energy, momentum and mass between the upper ocean and the atmosphere (and the cryosphere).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2002
Accession Number
ADA627014

Entities

People

  • Ramsey Harcourt
  • Roland W. Garwood Jr.

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheres
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Convection
  • Internal Waves
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Large Eddy Simulation
  • Layers
  • Mathematical Models
  • Momentum
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Simulations
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

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