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

摘要

Long-range operational goals are to: Establish methods for characterizing a variety of littoral environments based on a combination of dynamics and archived measurements. Because this requires an extensible system capable of treating a range of coastal dynamics, considerable understanding of specific processes (e.g. freshwater plumes, upwelling zones, shelfbreak fronts, near-inertial waves) will be essential. Develop methods for assimilating remotely sensed and in situ measurements to produce three-dimensional estimates of instantaneous variability. These contribute to our long-term scientific efforts to understand: The mesoscale dynamics of coastal environments (e.g. fronts, upwelling/downwelling, buoyancy plumes). Interactions between coastal and oceanic waters. Data assimilation techniques as applied to the study of three-dimensional dynamics.