NPS Institutional Contributions • Aircraft Overflights (RAMP, paduan, q.wang)

– Plume Mapping (SST, color, visual)– Surface Heat Fluxes

• Expanded HF Radar Network (PADUAN, ramp)– Extend North of Ano Nuevo (Cal. Prop. 40, CIMT)– Assimilate Surface Velocities Into Models

• ARIES and REMUS Vehicles (HEALEY, ramp)– Virtual Mooring– Broadband high-speed communications

• Real-Time Moorings (RAMP, healey)– Northern Border “Anchor Point”– 802.11b Surface Buoy

• POINT SUR ship surveys (ROSENFELD)– Perimeter observations, model initialization– NOT in NPS budget

NPS Top Three TasksThe Scientific

• Dynamics of 3-D upwelling centers– Why to they form where they do?– Need individual terms in the equations of motion

• Eddy/Undercurrent/Upwelling Center Interactions– What happens to the CUC when the MBE moves onshore?– Can we predict offshore vs. southward movement of the

cold, upwelled water?

• Advection vs. Mixing– How much cold water “spreading” is due to advection from

the center vs. mixing beneath an atmospheric jet?– 3-D volume/heat balance: How much cold water is actually

available to spread around?

NPS Top Three TasksThe Practical

• Achieve real-time observation and prediction of the coastal ocean circulation. Use Monterey Bay as a natural laboratory to learn how to do this elsewhere.

• Stated ASAP proposal goal: What is the minimum necessary and sufficient suite of observations required to keep the numerical assimilation and prediction schemes on track?

• How to develop a sustainable system?– Economical, Efficient, Useful

NPS Top Three TasksThe Enablers

• Flow of data from instruments to the laboratory via AUVs, buoys, cables, and aircraft – More “turnkey” acoustic and wireless telemetry– Automated QC/servers– Painless data availability to all

• Optimize use of limited assets through adaptive sampling and numerical prediction– Can/should we adapt the flight plans?– Can/should we adapt the ADCP sampling rates?

• Produce predictions/products that are useful to the general public (essential for sustainability)

Flights: Extend Track to the North

AUGUST 20, 2003 AUGUST 20, 2003SST Chl - a

From Qing Wang:

For August 15th

Wind Spd & Dir

Wind u, v comp

From Qing Wang:

For August 15th

Heat Flux

Momentum Flux

Sample HF Radar Products

Hourly Observed Hourly Mapped

Sample HF Radar Products

25-Hour Mean “Drifter” Movie

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are needed to see this picture.

NPS AOSN-II REMUS DATA

(outbound)