FRONT: Front-Resolving Observational Network with Telemetry.

摘要

The goal of this National Ocean Partnership Program is to develop an autonomous network of ocean sensors that telemeter their physical and biological data to shore in real-time with cutting edge communication technologies. With additional remotely sensed data (satellite measurements of temperature and color and shore-based high-frequency radar (CODAR) measurements of surface currents), these data streams will be assimilated into physical and biological models to predict the 4- dimensional properties of a limited coastal region. The accuracy of the assimilated products will be tested with data from a series of high-resolution ship surveys. Additional measurements of turbulence and other small-scale properties will be used to aid the eddy diffusivity parameterizations used in the data assimilation model.