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Salapata, D. ; Higgins, W. ; Schemn, J. ; O'Brien, J. J.
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Winter Temperature and Precipitation Verification of the NCEP Operational Climate Model
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2002
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48
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Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University
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Tallahassee, FL
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COAPS Technical Report 02-04b
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860
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Samuelsen, A
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Modeling the Effect of Eddies and Advection on the Lower Trophic Ecosystem in the Northeast Tropical Pacific
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2005
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Physical-Biological Interactions, Marine Ecosystem Modeling, Pacific Ocean, Gulf Of Tehuantepec, Costa Rica Dome, Cross-Shelf Transport, Eddies
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A medium complexity, nitrogen-based ecosystem model is developed in order to simulate the ecosystem in the northeast tropical Pacific. Several physical processes have major impact on the ecosystem in this region, most importantly intense wind jets along the coast and upwelling at the Costa Rica Dome (CRD). The ecosystem model is run “offline”, using a realistic physical ocean model hindcast as input. The physical model is a subdomain of the global Navy Coastal Ocean Model, which is a hybrid sigma-z level model. The model assimilates Modular Ocean Data Assimilation System temperature and salinity profiles derived from altimetry and sea surface temperature data. The model is forced by daily heat and momentum fluxes, and therefore captures short-term wind events such as the Tehuantepec jet. Because the model has high horizontal resolution (~1/8 degree) and assimilates sea surface height data, it has a realistic representation of eddies and mesoscale variability. The ecosystem model includes two nutrients (nitrate and ammonium), two size-classes of phytoplankton, two size-classes of zooplankton, and detritus. The model is run for 4 years from 1999 to 2002, with analyses focused on 2000-2002. The model is validated using SeaWiFS data and ship-based observations from the STAR-cruises (Stenella Abundance Research Project) of 1999 and 2000. The northernmost and most intense of the wind jets along Central America is the Tehuantepec jet. The Tehuantepec jet is responsible for upwelling large amounts of nutrient rich water south of the Gulf of Tehuantepec. The jet also occasionally produce large anti-cyclonic eddies that transport organic matter away from the coast. Because organic matter that is transported into the open ocean will eventually sink to the deep ocean, this has implications for the carbon export in this region. The model results are used to calculate cross-shelf fluxes in this region in order to estimate how much organic material is transported across the shelf break. Results show that at the Gulf of Tehuantepec there is high offshore export of organic material, particularly during eddy generation events, but also in fall. The highest export is on the order of 10 Mg C per meter of coastline per day and happens during eddy events. During these events there is a comparable onshore flux to the south of the gulf. Typically there is onshore flux to the south of the gulf during the summer. The model estimated transport away from the coast at the Gulf of Tehuantepec is 167 Tg C/year, and the onshore transport to the south of the gulf is 704 Tg C/year. The second subject of interest is the CRD. In this region, upwelling at the surface is caused by Ekman upwelling during the summer, although the dome is thought to be present at depth throughout the year. The doming of the isotherms below the thermocline is a result of vortex stretching and is decoupled from the wind-driven processes at the surface. A mass-balance budget is calculated at the CRD, and the horizontal and vertical fluxes are related to the abundance of plankton at the dome. There is upwelling (7.2X10-2 Sv ) at the dome throughout the year, but around the location of the dome (90° W), the upwelling is largest in the winter. Further west, input of nutrients from below is larger in the fall and summer. The results suggest that about 80% of the nitrate that is supplied to the dome during summer is actually brought up to the west of the dome and transported eastward by the North Equatorial Counter Current.
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Department of Oceanography
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$loc['Ph.D. thesis']
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Florida State University
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Tallahassee, FL
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COAPS @ mfield @
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591
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Samuelsen, A.
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A simulation of the biological response to low-frequency physical forcing in the tropical Pacific Ocean
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2000
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Department of Oceanography
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$loc['Master's thesis']
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Florida State University
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Tallahassee, FL
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COAPS @ mfield @
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636
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Samuelsen, A. ; O'Brien, J.J.
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Wind-induced cross-shelf flux of water masses and organic matter at the Gulf of Tehuantepec
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$loc['typeJournal Article']
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2008
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Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
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Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
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55
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3
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221-246
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shelf dynamics ; physical-biological interactions ; Gulf of Tehuantepec ; marine ecology ; meso-scale eddies ; advection
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0967-0637
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COAPS @ mfield @
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414
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Savage, A.C. ; Arbic, B.K. ; Alford, M.H. ; Ansong, J.K. ; Farrar, J.T. ; Menemenlis, D. ; O'Rourke, A.K. ; Richman, J.G. ; Shriver, J.F. ; Voet, G. ; Wallcraft, A.J. ; Zamudio, L.
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Spectral decomposition of internal gravity wave sea surface height in global models
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$loc['typeJournal Article']
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2017
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Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
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J. Geophys. Res. Oceans
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122
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10
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7803-7821
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2169-9275
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COAPS @ mfield @
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372
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Savage, A.C. ; Arbic, B.K. ; Alford, M.H. ; Ansong, J.K. ; Farrar, J.T. ; Menemenlis, D. ; O'Rourke, A.K. ; Richman, J.G. ; Shriver, J.F. ; Voet, G. ; Wallcraft, A.J. ; Zamudio, L.
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Spectral decomposition of internal gravity wave sea surface height in global models: INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVE SEA SURFACE HEIGHT
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$loc['typeJournal Article']
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2017
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Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
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J. Geophys. Res. Oceans
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122
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10
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7803-7821
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high-frequency motions ; atmospheric pressure ; dynamic height
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Two global ocean models ranging in horizontal resolution from 1/128 to 1/488 are used to study the space and time scales of sea surface height (SSH) signals associated with internal gravity waves (IGWs). Frequency-horizontal wavenumber SSH spectral densities are computed over seven regions of the world ocean from two simulations of the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) and three simulations of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model (MITgcm). High wavenumber, high-frequency SSH variance follows the predicted IGW linear dispersion curves. The realism of high-frequency motions (>0:87 cpd) in the models is tested through comparison of the frequency spectral density of dynamic height variance computed from the highest-resolution runs of each model (1/258 HYCOM and 1/488 MITgcm) with dynamic height variance frequency spectral density computed from nine in situ profiling instruments. These high-frequency motions are of particular interest because of their contributions to the small-scale SSH variability that will be observed on a global scale in the upcoming Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite altimetry mission. The variance at supertidal frequencies can be comparable to the tidal and low-frequency variance for high wavenumbers (length scales smaller than 50 km), especially in the higher-resolution simulations. In the highest-resolution simulations, the high-frequency variance can be greater than the low-frequency variance at these scales.
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COAPS @ rl18 @
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993
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Schoof, J.T. ; Arguez, A. ; Brolley, J. ; O'Brien, J.J.
Title
A new weather generator based on spectral properties of surface air temperatures
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$loc['typeJournal Article']
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2005
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Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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135
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1-4
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241-251
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new weather generator ; spectral methods ; stochastic modeling ; surface air temperatures
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0168-1923
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444
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Schoof, J.T. ; Pryor, S.C.
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An evaluation of two GCMs: simulation of North American teleconnection indices and synoptic phenomena
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2006
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International Journal of Climatology
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Int. J. Climatol.
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26
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2
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267-282
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GCM evaluation ; PNA ; NAO ; Midwest USA
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0899-8418
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440
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Schoof, J.T. ; Shin, D.W. ; Cocke, S. ; LaRow, T.E. ; Lim, Y.-K. ; O'Brien, J.J.
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Dynamically and statistically downscaled seasonal temperature and precipitation hindcast ensembles for the southeastern USA
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$loc['typeJournal Article']
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2009
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International Journal of Climatology
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Int. J. Climatol.
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29
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2
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243-257
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downscaling ; seasonal hindcast ; regional climate model
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0899-8418
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COAPS @ mfield @
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655
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Scott, JP
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An Intercomparison of Numerically Modeled Flux Data and Satellite-Derived Flux Data for Warm Seclusions
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2011
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Satellite ; Reanalysis ; Air Sea Interaction ; Turbulent Heat Fluxes ; Intercomparison ; Warm Seclusion
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$loc['Master's thesis']
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Florida State University
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Tallahassee, FL
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COAPS @ mfield @
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335
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