Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 1996
U.S. Weather Research Program (USWRP) prospectus development teams (PDTs) are small groups of sci... more U.S. Weather Research Program (USWRP) prospectus development teams (PDTs) are small groups of scientists that are convened by the USWRP lead scientist on a one-time basis to discuss critical issues and to provide advice related to future directions of the program. PDTs are a principal source of information for the Science Advisory Committee, which is a standing committee charged with the duty of making recommendations to the Program Office based upon overall program objectives. PDT-1 focused on theoretical issues, and PDT-2 on observational issues; PDT-3 is the first of several to focus on more specialized topics. PDT-3 was convened to identify forecasting problems related to U.S. coastal weather and oceanic conditions, and to suggest likely solution strategies. There were several overriding themes that emerged from the discussion. First, the lack of data in and over critical regions of the ocean, particularly in the atmospheric boundary layer, and the upper-ocean mixed layer were i...
The Wind Events and Shelf Transport (WEST) is a study of the role of wind-driven transport in she... more The Wind Events and Shelf Transport (WEST) is a study of the role of wind-driven transport in shelf productivity along Northern California off Bodega Bay. A major field program to directly measure the winds is based upon an inner array of 5 meteorological buoys and three coastal stations. The buoy at the center of the wind array is 5 km offshore in 90 m depth. Four additional buoys form a diamond about the central buoy, so that there are three buoys in a line cross-coast and three buoys in a line along-coast, with 20 km separating the most distant along shore and cross shore buoys. The winds at the buoys are at a common height and minute averaged. The bulk wind stress is constructed at each buoy. The array will provide a direct measurement of the wind stress over the shelf. The along and cross shore wind stress measurements are used to compute the wind stress curl and the long term variation of the wind stress curl. During the summer of 2001, the winds were generally coherent over t...
Page 1. AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF CLIVE EDGAR DORMAN (Name) for the DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Degr... more Page 1. AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF CLIVE EDGAR DORMAN (Name) for the DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Degree) in OCEANOGRAPHY presented on January 11, 1974 (Major) (Date) Title: ANALYSIS OF METEOROLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC ...
As part of the Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment (CODE), meteorological instruments were deployed... more As part of the Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment (CODE), meteorological instruments were deployed on buoys and at coastal stations and instrumented aircraft flights and coastal soundings were made to study the three‐dimensional structure of the marine boundary layer over the continental shelf off northern California during the 1981 and 1982 upwelling seasons. These measurements show that after the atmospheric spring transition the airflow in the marine layer is dominated by the North Pacific high, and the surface wind field over the shelf is characterized by periods of strong (7–15 m/s), upwelling‐favorable alongshelf winds lasting for up to 30 days, interrupted by shorter periods of much weaker winds directed either equatorward or poleward. These periods of weak or reversed winds typically last several days and are called wind relaxations, even though they are primarily associated with coastally trapped perturbations of the marine layer along the central and northern California coa...
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 1996
U.S. Weather Research Program (USWRP) prospectus development teams (PDTs) are small groups of sci... more U.S. Weather Research Program (USWRP) prospectus development teams (PDTs) are small groups of scientists that are convened by the USWRP lead scientist on a one-time basis to discuss critical issues and to provide advice related to future directions of the program. PDTs are a principal source of information for the Science Advisory Committee, which is a standing committee charged with the duty of making recommendations to the Program Office based upon overall program objectives. PDT-1 focused on theoretical issues, and PDT-2 on observational issues; PDT-3 is the first of several to focus on more specialized topics. PDT-3 was convened to identify forecasting problems related to U.S. coastal weather and oceanic conditions, and to suggest likely solution strategies. There were several overriding themes that emerged from the discussion. First, the lack of data in and over critical regions of the ocean, particularly in the atmospheric boundary layer, and the upper-ocean mixed layer were i...
The Wind Events and Shelf Transport (WEST) is a study of the role of wind-driven transport in she... more The Wind Events and Shelf Transport (WEST) is a study of the role of wind-driven transport in shelf productivity along Northern California off Bodega Bay. A major field program to directly measure the winds is based upon an inner array of 5 meteorological buoys and three coastal stations. The buoy at the center of the wind array is 5 km offshore in 90 m depth. Four additional buoys form a diamond about the central buoy, so that there are three buoys in a line cross-coast and three buoys in a line along-coast, with 20 km separating the most distant along shore and cross shore buoys. The winds at the buoys are at a common height and minute averaged. The bulk wind stress is constructed at each buoy. The array will provide a direct measurement of the wind stress over the shelf. The along and cross shore wind stress measurements are used to compute the wind stress curl and the long term variation of the wind stress curl. During the summer of 2001, the winds were generally coherent over t...
Page 1. AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF CLIVE EDGAR DORMAN (Name) for the DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Degr... more Page 1. AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF CLIVE EDGAR DORMAN (Name) for the DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Degree) in OCEANOGRAPHY presented on January 11, 1974 (Major) (Date) Title: ANALYSIS OF METEOROLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC ...
As part of the Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment (CODE), meteorological instruments were deployed... more As part of the Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment (CODE), meteorological instruments were deployed on buoys and at coastal stations and instrumented aircraft flights and coastal soundings were made to study the three‐dimensional structure of the marine boundary layer over the continental shelf off northern California during the 1981 and 1982 upwelling seasons. These measurements show that after the atmospheric spring transition the airflow in the marine layer is dominated by the North Pacific high, and the surface wind field over the shelf is characterized by periods of strong (7–15 m/s), upwelling‐favorable alongshelf winds lasting for up to 30 days, interrupted by shorter periods of much weaker winds directed either equatorward or poleward. These periods of weak or reversed winds typically last several days and are called wind relaxations, even though they are primarily associated with coastally trapped perturbations of the marine layer along the central and northern California coa...
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