ROCIS Flight Paths for Feb 20, 2024

Here, we show mutual-information (MI) Optimal flight paths for February 20, which maximizes the MI between the surface velocity measured along the candidate flight tracks in the table below on February 20 and σT + velocity at the verification points shown in the figure on the right on February 21 and 23. In addition, we consider flight paths that are 700 nmi and 805 nmi long. In each case, the flight is allowed to travel in any of Nθ=16 different directions (0° [north], 22.5°, 45°, etc.), in Ns=7 segments between takeoff and landing. We also consider a set of candidate flight paths at 700 nmi that are allowed to travel in any of Nθ=10 different directions in Ns=11 segments between takeoff and landing.

When we target σT and velocity we are interested in both the upper-layer eddies of the western wall and the full LC flow.

verif_locs.png

Data is collected all along the flight paths; datafiles with waypoint coordinates are available for download (see links in fifth column)

700 nmi tracks: Nθ=16 Ns=7
  Histogram of MI Track with maximum MI MI along candidate tracks Waypoint files
(optimal track)
optimizing for Feb 21 row001_histoMI_coz2coz_Na16_Ns7_paths.png.png
row001_MI_coz2coz_Na16_Ns7_paths_maxMI.png.png
row001_MI_coz2coz_Na16_Ns7_paths.png.png
ASCII | MAT
optimizing for Feb 23 row002_histoMI_coz2coz_Na16_Ns7_paths.png.png
row002_MI_coz2coz_Na16_Ns7_paths_maxMI.png.png
row002_MI_coz2coz_Na16_Ns7_paths.png.png
ASCII | MAT
 
700 nmi tracks: Nθ=10 Ns=11
  Histogram of MI Track with maximum MI MI along candidate tracks Waypoint files
(optimal track)
optimizing for Feb 21 row003_histoMI_coz2coz_Na10_Ns11_paths.png.png
row003_MI_coz2coz_Na10_Ns11_paths_maxMI.png.png
row003_MI_coz2coz_Na10_Ns11_paths.png.png
ASCII | MAT
optimizing for Feb 23 row004_histoMI_coz2coz_Na10_Ns11_paths.png.png
row004_MI_coz2coz_Na10_Ns11_paths_maxMI.png.png
row004_MI_coz2coz_Na10_Ns11_paths.png.png
ASCII | MAT
 
805 nmi tracks: Nθ=16 Ns=7
  Histogram of MI Track with maximum MI MI along candidate tracks Waypoint files
(optimal track)
optimizing for Feb 21 row005_histoMI_coz2coz_Na16_Ns7_paths.png.png
row005_MI_coz2coz_Na16_Ns7_paths_maxMI.png.png
row005_MI_coz2coz_Na16_Ns7_paths.png.png
ASCII | MAT
optimizing for Feb 23 row006_histoMI_coz2coz_Na16_Ns7_paths.png.png
row006_MI_coz2coz_Na16_Ns7_paths_maxMI.png.png
row006_MI_coz2coz_Na16_Ns7_paths.png.png
ASCII | MAT