Shallow Water Climatology and Analysis with Application to the Adriatic Sea.

摘要

This exploratory study will: * Investigate new techniques for constructing climatologies in regions dominated by strong, episodic small- and meso-scale features, including compositing schemes based on dynamical regimes and retention of additional metrics for quantifying variability and errors. * Extend the climatology with analysis products that employ remotely sensed and in situ measurements, climatological data and a priori assumptions regarding regional and temporal variations in the governing dynamics to produce estimates of instantaneous fields. * Investigate how climatologies and analysis products might be used to optimize the deployment of limited in-situ sampling resources. * Assemble archived data and develop a climatology for the Northern Adriatic Sea. This region will be used as a testbed for evaluating the techniques developed in the course of this study.