Sustained observations of mesoscale and sub-mesoscale surface circulation off the U.S. West Coast

Sung Yong Kim; Eric J. Terrill; Bruce D. Cornuelle; Mark A. Moline; John Largier; Burt Jones; Jeffrey D. Paduan; Greg Crawford; Libe Washburn; Newell Garfield; P. Michael Kosro

doi:10.1109/OCEANS-Yeosu.2012.6263380

Sustained observations of mesoscale and sub-mesoscale surface circulation off the U.S. West Coast

Sung Yong Kim^*, Eric J. Terrill, Bruce D. Cornuelle, Mark A. Moline, John Largier, Burt Jones, Jeffrey D. Paduan, Greg Crawford, Libe Washburn, Newell Garfield, P. Michael Kosro

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Abstract

With collaborated research efforts in the regional coastal ocean observing systems (SCCOOS, CeNCOOS, and NANOOS) off the U.S. West Coast (USWC), the nearly completed high-frequency radar (HFR) network provides an unprecedented capability to monitor and understand coastal ocean dynamics and phenomenology through hourly surface current measurements at up to 1 km resolution. The dynamics of the surface currents off the USWC are governed by tides, winds, Coriolis force, low-frequency pressure gradients (less than 0.4 cycles per day (cpd)), and nonlinear interactions of those forces. The HFR surface currents resolve coastal surface ocean variability continuously across scales from sub-mesoscale to mesoscale (O(1) km to O(1000) km). Their spectra decay with k-2 at high wave number (less than 100 km) in agreement with theoretical sub-mesoscale spectra below the observational limits of present-day satellite altimeters.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Program Book - OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE Yeosu
Subtitle of host publication	The Living Ocean and Coast - Diversity of Resources and Sustainable Activities
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS-Yeosu.2012.6263380
State	Published - 2012
Event	OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE Yeosu Conference: The Living Ocean and Coast - Diversity of Resources and Sustainable Activities - Yeosu, Korea, Republic of Duration: May 21 2012 → May 24 2012

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Other	OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE Yeosu Conference: The Living Ocean and Coast - Diversity of Resources and Sustainable Activities
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Yeosu
Period	05/21/12 → 05/24/12

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Kim, S. Y., Terrill, E. J., Cornuelle, B. D., Moline, M. A., Largier, J., Jones, B., Paduan, J. D., Crawford, G., Washburn, L., Garfield, N., & Kosro, P. M. (2012). Sustained observations of mesoscale and sub-mesoscale surface circulation off the U.S. West Coast. In Program Book - OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE Yeosu: The Living Ocean and Coast - Diversity of Resources and Sustainable Activities Article 6263380 (Program Book - OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE Yeosu: The Living Ocean and Coast - Diversity of Resources and Sustainable Activities). https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS-Yeosu.2012.6263380

Kim, Sung Yong ; Terrill, Eric J. ; Cornuelle, Bruce D. et al. / Sustained observations of mesoscale and sub-mesoscale surface circulation off the U.S. West Coast. Program Book - OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE Yeosu: The Living Ocean and Coast - Diversity of Resources and Sustainable Activities. 2012. (Program Book - OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE Yeosu: The Living Ocean and Coast - Diversity of Resources and Sustainable Activities).

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Kim, SY, Terrill, EJ, Cornuelle, BD, Moline, MA, Largier, J, Jones, B, Paduan, JD, Crawford, G, Washburn, L, Garfield, N & Kosro, PM 2012, Sustained observations of mesoscale and sub-mesoscale surface circulation off the U.S. West Coast. in Program Book - OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE Yeosu: The Living Ocean and Coast - Diversity of Resources and Sustainable Activities., 6263380, Program Book - OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE Yeosu: The Living Ocean and Coast - Diversity of Resources and Sustainable Activities, OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE Yeosu Conference: The Living Ocean and Coast - Diversity of Resources and Sustainable Activities, Yeosu, Korea, Republic of, 05/21/12. https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS-Yeosu.2012.6263380

Sustained observations of mesoscale and sub-mesoscale surface circulation off the U.S. West Coast. / Kim, Sung Yong; Terrill, Eric J.; Cornuelle, Bruce D. et al.
Program Book - OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE Yeosu: The Living Ocean and Coast - Diversity of Resources and Sustainable Activities. 2012. 6263380 (Program Book - OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE Yeosu: The Living Ocean and Coast - Diversity of Resources and Sustainable Activities).

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