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AN: OS21E-102    [PDF]
TI: Coupled Physical/Bio-Optical Model Experiments at LEO-15
AU: * Arango, H G
EM: arango@imcs.rutgers.edu
AF: IMCS, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 United States
AU: Bissett, P
EM: pbissett@flenvironmental.org
AF: Florida Environmental Reseach Institute, 4807 Bayshore Blvd, Suite 101, Tampa, FL 33611 United States
AU: Wang, S
EM: wang@nrlmry.navy.mil
AF: Naval Research Laboratory, 7 Grace Hopper Ave., Monterey, CA 93943 United States
AU: Glenn, S M
EM: glenn@caribbean.rutgers.edu
AF: IMCS, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 United States
AU: Schofield, O
EM: oscar@imcs.rutgers.edu
AF: IMCS, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 United States
AB: A coupled Atmosphere-Ocean-Ecosystem high resolution model is used to study the inherent and apparent optical properties (IOPs and AOPs) associated with recurrent summer upwelling events off of the New Jersey Coast. The physical and bio-optical data gathered by the observational network at the Long-Term Ecosystem Observatory (LEO-15) is used to initialize, update, and validate the coupled system (COAMPS/ROMS/EcoSim). A series of real-time, atmosphere-ocean nowcasting and forecasting experiments were carried during July 2001 as part of the HyCODE adaptive sampling program. The forecasting schedule was tuned to the data sampling strategy which required a three-day forecast twice a week. The overall predictive skill of the atmosphere-ocean system was improved by increasing the horizontal resolution of the atmospheric model (COAMPS) to 5km, when compared to previous year resolution of 40km. The bio-optical simulations using EcoSim were done in hindcast mode.
UR: http://marine.rutgers.edu/cool/hycode2/hycode2.html
DE: 4842 Modeling
DE: 4255 Numerical modeling
DE: 4263 Ocean prediction
DE: 4279 Upwelling and convergences
DE: 4504 Air/sea interactions (0312)
SC: OS
MN: 2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting