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Creator:: Huyer, Adriana, 1945-, Kosro, P. Michael, O'Malley, Robert T., and Fleischbein, Jane
Abstract:: An international Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE) was conducted in the warm-pool region of the western equatorial Pacific Ocean over a four-month period from November 1992 through February 1993 (Webster and Lukas, 1992). Most of the oceanographic and meteorological observations were concentrated in the Intensive Flux Array (IFA) centered at...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Hickey, B. M., Kudela, R. M., Nash, Jonathan, Bruland, K. W., Peterson, W. T., MacCready, P., Lessard, E. J., Jay, D. A., Banas, N. S., Baptista, A. M., Dever, Edward P., Kosro, P. Michael, Kilcher, L. K., Homer-Devine, A. R., Zaron, E. D., McCabe, R. M., Peterson, J. O., Orton, P. M., Pan, J., and Lohan, M. C.
Abstract:: River Influences on Shelf Ecosystems (RISE) is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary study of the rates and dynamics governing the mixing of river and coastal waters in an eastern boundary current system, as well as the effects of the resultant plume on phytoplankton standing stocks, growth and grazing rates, and community...
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Creator:: Kim, Sung Yong, Cornuelle, Bruce D., Terrill, Eric J., Jones, Burt, Washburn, Libe, Moline, Mark A., Paduan, Jeffrey D., Garfield, Newell, Largier, John L., Crawford, Greg, and Kosro, P. Michael
Abstract:: The network comprising 61 high-frequency radar systems along the U.S. West Coast (USWC) provides a unique, high resolution, and broad scale view of ocean surface circulation. Subinertial alongshore surface currents show poleward propagating signals with phase speeds of O(10) and O(100–300) km d⁻¹ that are consistent with historical in situ...
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Creator:: Kim, Sung Yong and Kosro, P. Michael
Abstract:: High-resolution (km in space and hourly in time) surface currents observed by an array of high-frequency radars off Oregon are analyzed to quantify the decorrelation time and length scales of their near-inertial motions. The near-inertial surface currents are dominantly clockwise with amplitudes of 9-12 cm s⁻¹. However, they appear asymmetric...
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Creator:: Boyd, Timothy John, 1958-2013, Levine, Murray D., Kosro, P. Michael, Gard, Steve R., and Waldorf, Walt
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Kudela, Raphael M., Horner-Devine, Alexander R., Banas, Neil S., Hickey, Barbara M., Peterson, Tawnya D., McCabe, Ryan M., Lessard, Evelyn J., Frame, Elizabeth, Bruland, Kenneth W., Jay, David A., Peterson, Jay O., Peterson, William T., Kosro, P. Michael, Palacios, Sherry L., Lohan, Maeve C., and Dever, Edward P.
Abstract:: Large rivers represent gateways for the transport of terrigenous and anthropogenic material to the coastal ocean. Here we document a ∼700 km2 recirculation or bulge associated with the Columbia River plume that retains recently discharged river water sufficiently to create a regional bioreactor. Fueled by a fluvial nitrate source, this...
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Creator:: Boyd, Timothy John, 1958-2013, Levine, Murray D., Kosro, P. Michael, and Gard, Steve R.
Abstract:: This report documents oceanographic and meteorological measurements made from instruments deployed on four moorings over the continental shelf west of Oregon, from spring through summer, 1999. These moorings were a component of an observational and numerical modeling program to study the response of the coastal ocean to wind forcing. The...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Kim, Sung Yong, Kosro, P. Michael, and Kurapov, Alexander L.
Abstract:: Directly wind-coherent near-inertial surface currents off the Oregon coast are investigated with a statistical parameterization of observations and outputs of a regional numerical ocean model and three one-dimensional analytical models including the slab layer, Ekman, and near-surface averaged Ekman models. The transfer functions and response functions, statistically estimated from observed...
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Creator:: Kurapov, Alexander, Allen, John S., Egbert, Gary D., Miller, Robert N., Kosro, P. Michael, Levine, Murray D., and Boyd, Timothy John, 1958-2013
Abstract:: An optimal interpolation (OI) sequential algorithm is implemented for a three-dimensional primitive equation model to assimilate current measurements from acoustic Doppler profilers moored on the Oregon shelf as a part of the Coastal Ocean Advances in Shelf Transport (COAST) upwelling experiment (May–August 2001). A stationary estimate of the forecast error...
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Creator:: Shearman, R. Kipp, Barth, John A., and Kosro, P. Michael
Abstract:: A high-resolution upper-ocean survey of a cyclonic jet meander and an adjacent cyclonic eddy in the California Current region near 38°N, 126°W was conducted as part of the summer of 1993 Eastern Boundary Currents program. Temperature and salinity were measured from a SeaSoar vehicle, and velocity was measured by shipboard...
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