Accession Number:

ADA551506

Title:

Hindcast & Nowcast of Currents in the Santa Barbara

Descriptive Note:

Annual rept.

Corporate Author:

PRINCETON UNV NJ PROGRAM IN ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC SCIENCES

Personal Author(s):

• Oey, Lie-Yauw

Report Date:

1998-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

6.0

Abstract:

To develop a high-resolution, verifiable nowcast and forecast model for the Santa Barbara Channel SBC by combining basic understanding of the circulation processes through theory and observations, numerical techniques and data assimilation. To test the model using inputs from realistic wind and density fields for Dec97 through May98, and use the results to study the momentum balance in the channel.

Descriptors:

• *CIRCULATION
• *OCEAN CURRENTS
• CURRENTS
• DENSITY
• FORECASTING
• HIGH RESOLUTION
• MODELS
• MOMENTUM
• NUMERICAL METHODS AND PROCEDURES
• TEST AND EVALUATION
• THEORY
• WIND

Subject Categories:

• Meteorology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE