Accession Number:

ADA604087

Title:

Accuracy Progressive Calculation of Lagrangian Trajectories from Gridded Velocity Field

Descriptive Note:

Journal article

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA NAVAL OCEAN ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION LAB

Personal Author(s):

• Chu, Peter C.
• Fan, Chenwu

Report Date:

2014-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

34.0

Abstract:

Reduction of computational error is a key issue in computing Lagrangian trajectories 12 using gridded velocities. Computational accuracy enhances from using the first term constant 13 velocity scheme, the first two terms linear uncoupled scheme, the first three terms linear 14 coupled scheme, to using all the four terms nonlinear coupled scheme of the two-dimensional 15 interpolation. A unified analytical form is presented in this study for different truncations. 16 Ordinary differential equations for predicting Lagrangian trajectory are linear using the constant 17 velocitylinear uncoupled schemes both commonly used in atmospheric and ocean modeling 18 linear coupled scheme and nonlinear using the nonlinear coupled scheme both proposed in this 19 paper. Location of the Lagrangian drifter inside the grid cell is determined by two algebraic 20 equations, which are solved explicitly with the constant velocitylinear uncoupled schemes, and 21 implicitly using the Newton-Raphson iteration method with the linearnonlinear coupled 22 schemes. The analytical Stommel ocean model on the f-plane is used to illustrate great accuracy 23 improvement from keeping the first-term to keeping all the terms of the two-dimensional 24 interpolation.

Descriptors:

• *COMPUTATIONS
• *LAGRANGIAN FUNCTIONS
• *VELOCITY
• ACCURACY
• ALGEBRA
• CELLS
• COUPLING(INTERACTION)
• DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
• ERRORS
• GRIDS
• NONLINEAR SYSTEMS
• OCEAN MODELS
• REDUCTION
• TRAJECTORIES
• TWO DIMENSIONAL

Subject Categories:

• Numerical Mathematics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE