Drifter Trajectory Forecast and Forward FTLE Forecast (No Man's Land) for 14 Aug 1300Z to 14 Aug 2200Z 2017, Issued 14 Aug 2017 Morning

Central Forecast

The following figures show the trajectories and forward FTLEs in the domain around No Man's Land, at different times. The drifters are released at every 5 grid points. The grid has a model resolution of 200m. These trajectory and forward FTLE computations are for a time window of 6 hours for the given forecast. The window center shifts in 1 hour intervals.

As a reminder, 12:00Z = 08:00 EDT, i.e., local time is 4 hours behind Zulu time.

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Drifter Trajectories (Depth: 0m);
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Forward FTLEs
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