HR: 15:25h
AN: OS53A-06    [Abstracts]
TI: Early Scientific Results From the East Florida Shelf Information System(EFSIS)
AU: * Mooers, C N
EM: cmooers@rsmas.miami.edu
AF: OPEL/AMP/RSMAS/Univ. of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy., Miami, FL 33133-3811 United States
AU: Bang, I
EM: ibang@rsmas.miami.edu
AF: OPEL/AMP/RSMAS/Univ. of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy., Miami, FL 33133-3811 United States
AU: Fiechter, J
EM: jfiechter@rsmas.miami.edu
AF: OPEL/AMP/RSMAS/Univ. of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy., Miami, FL 33133-3811 United States
AB: As part of the SEA-COOS (Southeast Atlantic-Coastal Ocean Observing System) Program, the Princeton Ocean Model (POM) has been implemented on a curvilinear grid (ca. 2 to 10 km) and in sigma coordinates (25 levels, with concentrations nearsurface and nearbottom), for the East Florida Shelf (EFS), including all of the Straits of Florida, in both a barotropic and a baroclinic mode, which are called EFS-POM. The forcing includes upstream open boundary conditions for the Florida Current in the Gulf of Mexico and downstream open boundary conditions at ca. 32N, climatological monthly surface heating/cooling, synoptic wind-forcing from a NCEP mesoscale numerical weather prediction model (Eta), and eight major tidal constituents. EFS-POM hindcast simulations are used for process and sensitivity studies. EFS-POM is also used as the core of a real-time nowcast/forecast system, called the East Florida Shelf Information System (EFSIS). The observations and observing system elements existing prior to SEA-COOS are used for EFS-POM model validation and EFSIS nowcast/forecast verification, respectively, while awaiting the emergence of new and additional observing system elements as part of SEA-COOS. In the interim, EFS-POM and EFSIS have opened possibilities for examining long-standing scientific issues; e.g., the dynamics of Florida Current frontal meanders and cut-off eddies, internal tides, and cross-shelf exchange.
UR: http://efsis.rsmas.miami.edu
DE: 4512 Currents
DE: 4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes
DE: 4528 Fronts and jets
DE: 4544 Internal and inertial waves
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting