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Creator:: Swenson, Mark S., Niiler, Pearn P., Brink, Kenneth H., and Abbott, Mark R.
Abstract:: We use the position fixes and temperature readings from 56 Tristar-II mixed-layer drifters, in conjunction with advanced very high resolution radiometer images, to provide a description of the mesoscale variability of the flows associated with cold-water filaments in the California Current system off northern California in July 1988. We find...
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Creator:: Abbott, Mark R., Brink, Kenneth H., Booth, C. R., Blasco, Dolors, Swenson, Mark S., Davis, Curtiss O., and Codispoti, L. A.
Abstract:: A drifter equipped with bio-optical sensors and an automated water sampler was deployed in the California Current as part of the coastal transition zone program to study the biological, chemical, and physical dynamics of the meandering filaments. During deployments in 1987 and 1988, measurements were made of fluorescence, downwelling irradiance,...
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Full Text:: -surface drifters Mark R. Abbott, 1 Kenneth H. Brink, 2 C. R. Booth, 3 Dolors Biascoil Mark S. Swenson

Creator:: Brink, K. H., Beardsley, R. C., Niiler, Pearn P., Abbott, Mark R., Huyer, Adriana, 1945-, Ramp, S., Stanton, T., and Stuart, D.
Abstract:: During the summers of 1987 and 1988, 77 near-surface satellite-tracked drifters were deployed in or near cold filaments near Point Arena, California (39ºN), and tracked for up to 6 months as part of the Coastal Transition Zone (CTZ) program. The drifters had large drogues centered at 15 m, and the...
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Creator:: Weidemann, A. D., Stavn, R. H., Zaneveld, J. Ronald, and Wilcox, M. R.
Abstract:: Monte Carlo simulations are carried out to determine the error in the inversion of backscattering from remotely sensed reflectance when geometrical shape factors of the light field are assumed to be unity. The results show that error in backscattering inversion can vary from a 40% overestimation to a 20% underestimation...
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Full Text:: , • R. H. Stavn, • J. R. V. Zaneveld, 3 and M. R. Wilcox 4 Abstract. Monte Carlo simulations are

Creator:: Abbott, Mark R., Brink, Kenneth H., Booth, D. R., Blasco, Dolors, Codispoti, L. A., Niiler, Pearn P., and Ramp, Steven R.
Abstract:: A Lagrangian drifter was deployed in a cold filament off northern California as part of the Coastal Transition Zone program. The drifter was equipped with an optical package (consisting of a spectroradiometer, a fluorometer, and a beam transmissometer) suspended at 8.5-m depth and a water sampler suspended at 16.3-m depth....
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Full Text:: California MARK R. ABBOTT, 1 KENNETH H. BRINK, 2 C. R. BOOTH, 3 DOLORS BLASCO 4 L. A. CODISPOTI, 5 PEARN P

Creator:: Howd, Peter A., Oltman-Shay, Joan, and Holman, Robert A.
Abstract:: The wave-induced velocity field in the nearshore is composed of contributions from incident wind waves (f > 0.05 Hz), surface infragravity waves (f < 0.05 Hz, lkl < (σ²/gβ) and shear waves (f < 0.05 Hz, lkl > σ²/gβ), where ƒ is the frequency, σ = 2πf, k is the...
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Full Text:: Hrms = (8s2) 1/2, s 2 is the incident wave variance, and h is the local water depth. For monochromatic

Creator:: Howd, Peter A., Bowen, Anthony J., and Holman, Robert A.
Abstract:: A form of the linear, inviscid shallow water wave equation which includes alongshore uniform, but cross-shore variable, longshore currents and bathymetry is presented. This formulation provides a continuum between gravity waves (either leaky or edge waves) on a longshore current, and the recently discovered shear waves. In this paper we...
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Full Text:: terms of a modification to the true beach profile, h' (x) = h(x) [ 1 - V(x)/c]-2, where h(x) is the

Creator:: Chelton, Dudley B.
Abstract:: The wind speed and significant wave height (H1/3) dependencies of the sea state is in altimeter estimates of sea level, expressed in the form ∆hSSB=bH1/3, are examined from least squares analysis of 21 cycles of collinear TOPEX data. The bias coefficient b is found to increase in magnitude with increasing...
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Full Text:: 2. The resulting H•/s dependence of the sea state bias, shown by the heavy solid line in Figure 3a

Creator:: Moore, J. Keith, Abbott, Mark R., and Richman, James G.
Abstract:: The location of the Antarctic Polar Front (PF) was mapped over a 7-year period (1987-1993) within images of satellite-deprived sea surface temperature. The mean path of the PF is strongly steered by the topographic features of the Southern Ocean. The topography places vorticity constraints on the dynamics of the PF...
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Full Text:: dynamics can be understood in the context of the planetary potential vorticity (PPV or f/H) field. Mean

Creator:: Hackert, Eric C., Miller, Robert N., and Busalacchi, Antonio J.
Abstract:: This paper presents a series of observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs) which are intended as a design study for a proposed array of instrumented moorings in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Fields of TOPEX/Poseidon sea surface height anomalies are subsampled with the goal being reconstruction of the original fields through the...
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Full Text:: variables include normalized height anomaly (h), zonal cur- rent (U) and the Kelvin wave amplitude (AK) for

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