PHILEX IOP09 February/March 2009 Exercise - MSEAS Home Page

20 - 24 March 2009

This web page presents the output from a coupled biogeochemical/physical free surface simulation in our archipelago domain. This is the latest forecast (issued on 21 March 2009).

The simulation is forced with a combination of COAMPS (wind stress) and NOGAPS (heat-flux, E-P) atmospheric forcing. It is initialized using a February climatology from the World Ocean Atlas, created using our Fast-Marching-Method Objective Analysis scheme to account for the complex geometries and the disconnected seas at depth. Large-scale open boundary conditions are weakly forced by HYCOM fields, provided by Joseph Metzger, Ole Martin Smedstad and Harley Hurlburt (NRL-SSC). The bathymetry used is that of Smith and Sandwell. All simulations are forced with our Generalized Inverse High-Resolution Barotropic Tides.

Remotely-sensed Sea Surface Height anomalies and Sea Surface Temperature are the only synoptic data utilized for initialization and assimilation. No hydrographic data are currently available.

Chlorophyll is presented as mg/m3 while all other quantities are presented as mmol N/m3.


Mar. 20 - 24: Snapshot Time-Series of the Estimated Ocean State (every 6 hours)
3km Archipelago Domain
  Chlorophyll Nitrate Ammonium Zooplankton Detritus
20m X X X X X
60m X X X X X
120m X X X X X

Vertical Sections
  Chlorophyll Nitrate Ammonium Zooplankton Detritus
Northern Mindoro Strait X X X X X
Southern Mindoro Strait X X X X X
Sulu Sea X X X X X
Bohol Sea X X X X X
San Bernadino Strait X X X X X


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