PHILEX IOP09 February/March 2009 Exercise - MSEAS Home Page

17 - 22 February 2009

This web page presents the output from a five day long free surface simulation in our archipelago domain. This is a forecast issued 21 February 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 is currently available.


Feb. 17-22: Snapshot Time-Series of the Estimated Ocean State (every 6 hours)
T 0m T 50m T 100m T 400m
S 0m S 50m S 100m S 400m
Vel. 0m Vel. 50m Vel. 100m Vel. 400m

Vertical Sections
Mindoro Strait 1 Temperature Salinity Velocity - Along Velocity - Across
Mindoro Strait 2 Temperature Salinity Velocity - Along Velocity - Across
Sulu Sea Temperature Salinity Velocity - Along Velocity - Across
Bohol Sea Temperature Salinity Velocity - Along Velocity - Across
San Bernadino Strait Temperature Salinity Velocity - Along Velocity - Across

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