High Resolution Regional Simulations of Flow and Turbulence in Wakes of Abrupt Topography: A proposal to ONR
Abstract
The equatorial current systems of the Western Pacific interact with many topographic features such as the islands of Palua, Yap, and"" Guam/Saipan and the Palay, Yap and Mariana Island Arcs, respectively. We propose to studies of island wakes at numerous island loca""tions such as UYap, Guam/Saipan, the Marshall Islands. This will compliment ongoing field activities near Palau (FLEAT) and Guam (St". Laurent/ Terrill) as well hindcasts of unusual wake-bloom events such as occurred near Chuuk and Pohnpei in October 2013. The prop"osed study allows us to eexamining a broad parameter space and explore the role of changing f in changing wake characteristics, as w""ell as differing background forcing and different topographies. In particular Palau, Yap and Guam/Saipan are islands that are the su""rface manifestation of the Palau, Yap and Mariana Island Arcs, respectively isolated topography, and it is expected that the island-"wake characteristics will be different
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- May 05, 2017
- Source ID
- N000141712383
Entities
People
- Harper L. Simmons
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of Alaska Fairbanks