HR: 16:30h
AN: OS54B-03    [Abstracts]
TI: Integrated Coastal Analyses in the Gulf of Mexico
AU: * Parsons, A R
EM: parsons@nrlssc.navy.mil
AF: Naval Research Laboratory, Oceanography Division Building 1009, Stennis Space Center, MS 39529 United States
AU: Arnone, R A
EM: arnone@nrlssc.navy.mil
AF: Naval Research Laboratory, Oceanography Division Building 1009, Stennis Space Center, MS 39529 United States
AU: Preller, R H
EM: preller@nrlssc.navy.mil
AF: Naval Research Laboratory, Oceanography Division Building 1009, Stennis Space Center, MS 39529 United States
AU: Ko, D S
AF: Naval Research Laboratory, Oceanography Division Building 1009, Stennis Space Center, MS 39529 United States
AU: Beard, R H
EM: russ.beard@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA National Coastal Data Development Center, Building 1100, Room 101, Stennis Space Center, MS 39529 United States
AU: Hall, C M
EM: callie.m.hall@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Earth Science Application Directorate, John C. Stennis Space Center Building 1100, Stennis Space Center, MS 39529 United States
AB: Coastal management and research require real-time access to environmental data for analyses of changing ocean conditions. The coastal ocean is impacted by offshore mesoscale forcing as well as input from terrigenous land sources in response to human impact resulting from changing land uses. Monitoring and understanding the variability of the coastal ocean is critical for defining the dispersion of pollutants and chemical agents that impact our environment and potentially our homeland security. We will demonstrate the utility of integrating real-time satellite derived ocean properties, available observations along with numerical coastal and open ocean model output for characterizing the ocean environment to support research efforts and operational programs at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Earth Sciences Applications Directorate (NASA ESA) and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Integrating and analyzing information derived from satellite and model properties of the Gulf of Mexico will focus on operational and research efforts that include Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs), fresh water outfall, and hypoxia initiatives. We will examine the physical model predictions relative to the observations in terms of model performance and validation. Additionally, examples of the research, including short-term chlorophyll advection, inferred 3-D chlorophyll profiles and correlations of local surface divergence to chlorophyll blooms, will be presented.
DE: 4500 OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL
DE: 4532 General circulation
DE: 4552 Ocean optics
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting