Upper Ocean Profiling Floats
Abstract
The Bay of Bengal and northern North Atlantic are both areas of intense air-sea interaction. The Bay of Bengal is strongly influenced by the seasonal monsoon cycle, whereas the North Atlantic is heavily affected by intense storms. As regions of large air-sea momentum, heat and freshwater fluxes, it is important to understand the physics, including surface waves that control the upper ocean state, and test and improve our parameterized models of it. Under the two field programs, the Monsoon Intra-SeasonalOscillations in the Tropical Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal (MISO-BOB) DRI in the Indian Ocean,and the Near Inertial Shear and Kinetic Energy in the North Atlantic Experiment (NISKINE) DRI south of Iceland in the North Atlantic Ocean, we will make profiling float observations of the upper ocean to understand the ocean???s interaction with the atmosphere on weekly to monthly timescales.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Sep 04, 2018
- Source ID
- N000141812819
Entities
People
- Steven R. Jayne
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution