LatMix 2011 and 2012 Dispersion Analysis

Abstract

Project Summary Numerous papers by our group relating to the LatMix field and modeling efforts are either published, submitted, or in preparation and nearing completion. Our analysis to date relating to the LatMix dye results have contributed significant insight into the underlying mechanisms responsible for isopycnal and diapycnal mixing and cross-frontal transport during both the 2011 and 2012 field campaigns. Despite the many manuscripts already resulting from the LatMix dye/drifter/lidar effort, however, there are additional aspects of the data and analysis that are beyond the scope of these already-in-progress manuscripts, but which we believe also represent significant contributions warranting publication. These include a manuscript describing our inversion approach for determining absolution dye concentration from raw waveforms collected during the LatMix 2011 airborne lidar surveys, and completion of the analysis and write-up of major results stemming from the LatMix 2012 dye release experiments. Publication of these two additional manuscripts, as well as ancillary analysis associated with this effort, has the potential to significantly enhance the impact of the LatMix field efforts. An additional benefit of the proposed effort is that it will also further strengthen the results of multiple manuscripts already published or in preparation by our group as well as by other LatMix PIs. The additional manuscripts proposed here could be completed with a relatively small amount of additional time/effort, and hence are the subject of the present 1 year supplemental funding request.

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Aug 12, 2016
Source ID
N000141512458

Entities

People

  • Miles Sundermeyer

Organizations

  • Office of Naval Research
  • United States Navy
  • University of Massachusetts

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Clinical Trial Research.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.