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Creator:: Whitney, Michael M. and Allen, J. S.
Abstract:: This study examines how coastal banks influence wind-driven circulation along stratified continental shelves. Numerical experiments are conducted for idealized symmetric banks; the standard bank (200 km long and 50 km wide) has dimensions similar to the Heceta Bank complex along the Oregon shelf. Model runs are forced with 10 days...
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Full Text:: Vicinity of a Bank. Part I: Modeling Flow over Idealized Symmetric Banks MICHAEL M. WHITNEY Department of

Creator:: Whitney, Michael M. and Allen, J. S.
Abstract:: This study investigates wind-driven circulation in the vicinity of the Heceta Bank complex along the Oregon shelf. Numerical experiments forced with steady winds (0.1 Pa) are conducted; upwelling and downwelling cases are compared. The asymmetric bank bathymetry is the only configurational difference from the symmetric bank runs analyzed in Part...
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Full Text:: Vicinity of a Bank. Part II: Modeling Flow over the Heceta Bank Complex on the Oregon Coast MICHAEL M

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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Full Text:: phoc_29_402.651_670 APRIL 1999 651S H E A R M A N E T A L . q 1999

Creator:: Chelton, Dudley B., Schlax, Michael G., and Samelson, Roger M.
Abstract:: Satellite observations of wind stress and sea surface temperature (SST) are analyzed to investigate ocean–atmosphere interaction in the California Current System (CCS). As in regions of strong SST fronts elsewhere in the World Ocean, SST in the CCS region is positively correlated with surface wind stress when SST fronts are...
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Full Text:: , Oregon MICHAEL G. SCHLAX College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University

Creator:: Haack, Tracy, Chelton, Dudley, Pullen, Julie, Doyle, James D., and Schlax, Michael
Abstract:: High-resolution mesoscale model sea surface temperature (SST) analyses and surface wind stress forecasts off the U.S. West Coast are analyzed on monthly time scales for robust signatures of air–sea interaction as the surface winds encounter ocean surface features such as SST fronts, filaments, and eddies. This interaction is manifest by...
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Full Text:: Laboratory, Monterey, California MICHAEL SCHLAX College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State

Creator:: Halpern, David, Freilich, Michael H., and Weller, Robert A.
Abstract:: The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and Institut Francais Pour la Recherche et l’Exploitation de la Mer European Remote-Sensing Satellite, named IFR2, surface wind velocity data products are compared during July 1995 over the Arabian Sea. Substantial differences were found. The central positions of the maximum isotach were...
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Full Text:: phoc_29_704.1619_1623 JULY 1999 1619N O T E S A N D C O R R E S P O N D

Creator:: Gaube, Peter, Chelton, Dudley B., Samelson, Roger M., Schlax, Michael G., and O'Neill, Larry W.
Abstract:: Three mechanisms for self-induced Ekman pumping in the interiors of mesoscale ocean eddies are investigated. The first arises from the surface stress that occurs because of differences between surface wind and ocean velocities, resulting in Ekman upwelling and downwelling in the cores of anticyclones and cyclones, respectively. The second mechanism...
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Full Text:: ,* DUDLEY B. CHELTON, ROGER M. SAMELSON, MICHAEL G. SCHLAX, AND LARRY W. O’NEILL College of Earth, Ocean

Creator:: Chelton, Dudley B., deSzoeke, Roland A., Schlax, Michael G., El Naggar, Karim, and Siwertz, Nicolas
Abstract:: Global 1° × 1° climatologies of the first baroclinic gravity-wave phase speed c¹ and the Rossby radius of deformation λ1 are computed from climatological average temperature and salinity profiles. These new atlases are compared with previously published 5° × 5° coarse resolution maps of λ₁ for the Northern Hemisphere and...
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Full Text:: 28_112.433_460 MARCH 1998 433C H E L T O N E T A L . q 1998 American

Creator:: Thomson, Jim, Schwendeman, Michael S., Zippel, Seth F., Moghimi, Saeed, Gemmrich, Johannes, and Rogers, W. Erick
Abstract:: Observations of winds, waves, and turbulence at the ocean surface are compared with several analytic formulations and a numerical model for the input of turbulent kinetic energy by wave breaking and the subsequent dissipation. The observations are generally consistent with all of the formulations, although some differences are notable at...
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Full Text:: Surface Layer JIM THOMSON, MICHAEL S. SCHWENDEMAN, AND SETH F. ZIPPEL Applied Physics Laboratory

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