California Current Moored Array: Local Dynamics and Mixed Layer Study

Abstract

My long-term goals are to quantify and to better understand the dynamics and energetics of the mesoscale in eastern boundary regimes, and to understand the relation between the mixed layer and the mesoscale. My objectives (within the EBC ARI) are to use the 2-year time series of moored currents and temperatures to 1) determine momentum, energy, and vorticity balances in the California Current System on eddy resolving scales, and to 2) determine the importance of local forcing and its coupling to the ocean interior through the mixed layer.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1997
Accession Number
ADA628385

Entities

People

  • Teresa K. Chereskin

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Altimeters
  • Boundaries
  • California
  • Continental Slopes
  • Deep Water
  • Dynamics
  • Energy
  • Information Operations
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Measurement
  • Observation
  • Offshore
  • Physics
  • Solar Radiation
  • Underwater Acoustics
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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