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DTIC ADA609811: Observations and Modeling of the

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My long-term goal is improved understanding of how physical processes affect material property distributions on continental shelves. These include biological (red-tide algae and fish larvae), chemical (nutrients), and geological (sediment resuspension/transport) measures, and the physical responses of the currents and sea level. To achieve this goal I must accomplish a related set of objectives. In logical order, these are. 1) I am developing a description of the seasonally varying circulation on the West Florida Continental Shelf (WFS) using a combination of in-situ measurements and numerical circulation models. 2) Along with description, I am developing a quantitative understanding of how the various forcing functions: tides; synoptic weather; and surface, coastal, and offshore buoyancy fluxes affect the WFS circulation. 3) I am determining how these processes affect along and across-shelf material property transports, with emphasis on the frictional boundary layers. 4) Given large seasonal transitions, I am assessing the relative importances of the surface heat and fresh water fluxes and the coastal ocean dynamics in determining WFS water properties.

5) I want to relate these foregoing physical factors to questions of geological, biological, and chemical importance; for example, storm surges, sediment redistributions, nutrient distributions, species migrations and successions, primary productivity, red-tides, and how all of these factors affect inherent optical properties (IOPs). 6) Since these objectives require sampling over various time and length scales using an assortment of instruments, I am working toward a WFS Autonomous Ocean Sampling Network (AOSN) site south of Tampa Bay that may be useful for naval defense related experimentation

• Creator/s: Defense Technical Information Center
• Date: 9/30/2000
• Year: 2000
• Book Topics/Themes: DTIC Archive, , UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA SAINT PETERSBURG COLL OF MARINE SCIENCE, *CONTINENTAL SHELVES, *OCEAN CURRENTS, *OCEAN MODELS, FLORIDA, HEAT FLUX, IN SITU ANALYSIS, NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, OBSERVATION, TRANSPORT

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