{"id":1127,"date":"2011-09-06T06:42:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T10:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mseas.net16.net\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2021-07-06T13:24:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T17:24:59","slug":"oceanographic-and-atmospheric-conditions-on-the-continental-shelf-north-of-the-monterey-bay-during-august-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/?p=1127","title":{"rendered":"Oceanographic and Atmospheric Conditions on the Continental Shelf North of the Monterey Bay during August 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"A comprehensive data set from the ocean and atmosphere was\r\nobtained just north of the Monterey Bay as part of the Monterey\r\nBay 2006 (MB06) field experiment. The wind stress, heat\r\nfluxes, and sea surface temperature were sampled by the Naval\r\nPostgraduate School&#8217;s Twin Otter research aircraft. In situ data\r\nwere collected using ships, moorings, gliders and AUVs. Four\r\ndata-assimilating numerical models were additionally run, including\r\nthe Coupled Ocean\/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System\r\n(COAMPS) model for the atmosphere and the Harvard Ocean\r\nPrediction System (HOPS), the Regional Ocean Modeling System\r\n(ROMS), and the Navy Coastal Ocean Model (NCOM) for the ocean.\r\nThe scientific focus of the Adaptive Sampling and Prediction\r\nExperiment (ASAP) was on the upwelling\/relaxation cycle and\r\nthe resulting three-dimensional coastal circulation near a coastal\r\npromontory, in this case Point Ano Nuevo, CA. The emphasis of this\r\nstudy is on the circulation over the continental shelf as estimated\r\nfrom the wind forcing, two ADCP moorings, and model outputs. The\r\nwind stress during August 2006 consisted of 3-10 day upwelling\r\nfavorable events separated by brief 1-3 day relaxations. During the first two weeks there was some correlation between local winds\r\nand currents and the three models&#8217; capability to reproduce the\r\nevents. During the last two weeks, largely equatorward surface\r\nwind stress forced the sea surface and barotropic poleward flow\r\noccurred over the shelf, reducing model skill at predicting the circulation.\r\nThe poleward flow was apparently remotely forced by\r\nmesoscale eddies and alongshore pressure gradients, which were\r\nnot well simulated by the models. The small, high-resolution model\r\ndomains were highly reliant on correct open boundary conditions\r\nto drive these larger-scale poleward flows. Multiply-nested models\r\nwere no more effective than well-initialized local models in this\r\nrespect.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comprehensive data set from the ocean and atmosphere was obtained just north of the Monterey Bay as part of the Monterey Bay 2006 (MB06) field experiment. The wind stress, heat fluxes, and sea surface temperature were sampled by the Naval Postgraduate School&#8217;s Twin Otter research aircraft. In situ data were collected using ships, moorings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,38,5,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applications-to-ocean-dynamics","category-physical-oceanography","category-publications","category-papers-in-refereed-journals-physical-oceanography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5630,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions\/5630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}