Improving Global Surface and Internal Tides through Two-_way Coupling with High Resolution Coastal Models
Abstract
Drawing on his years of expertise in global tide modeling, Dr. Arbic will advise the entire project on the selection of important regions in which to implement the two-way nesting focused on in the proposal. The regions will be selected based on analytical and numerical model results in three of Arbic’s publications-Arbic et al. (2009), Arbic and Garrett (2010) and Skiba et al.(2013). In addition, Arbic will continue working with collaborators at Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to validate and apply the HYCOM in tides simulations. To date Arbic has published 16 papers with NRL and Florida State University HYCOM collaborators, and several more papers are in various states of preparation. Finally, Arbic will supervise the contributions of his graduate students Anna Savage and Conrad Luecke, Savage and Luecke have been supported by ONR funding until now and this additional support will enable them to complete their PhD dissertations. Luecke will validate the low-frequency, near-inertial, and tidal kinetic and available potential energies in HYCOM kinetic and available potential energies in these different frequency bands. Savage will compare sea surface height frequency due to mesoscale eddies, quantify the impact of tidal aliasing on estimates of sea surface height wavenumber spectra estimates made from satellite altimetry and quantify the sea surface height variance due to internal gravity waves. Savage’s research is strongly motivated by the planned NASA SWOT (Surface Water Ocean Topography) wide-swath altimeter mission. Arvis and NRL scientists James Richman and Jay Shriver are members of the NASA SWOT Science Definition Team (SDT) and Savage has attended all but the first meeting of the NASA SWOT SDT
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Aug 12, 2016
- Source ID
- N000141512288
Entities
People
- Maarten C Buijsman
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of Southern Mississippi