This web page presents the output from an eighteen day long free surface simulation in our archipelago domain. This is a forecast issued 25 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 are currently available.
| Feb. 21-26: Snapshot Time-Series of the Estimated Ocean State (every 6 hours) | ||||||||||
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| 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 | ||||
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| 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 |
