Forecasting and reanalysis in the Monterey Bay/California Current region for the Autonomous Ocean Sampling Network-II experiment

Oceanographic and atmospheric conditions on the continental shelf north of the Monterey Bay during August 2006

“…As the wind continues to blow for 5-10 days, a cold plume forms which may move further offshore or turn southward across the Monterey Submarine Canyon (MSC) (Rosenfeld et al, 1994;Ramp et al, 2005;Haley et al, 2009). A warm, fresh, anticyclonic feature (the "Monterey Bay Eddy" or MBE) often exists offshore, which interacts with the cold plume in some complex way (Rosenfeld et al, 1994;Paduan and Rosenfeld, 1996;Ramp et al, 2005).…”

The California Current System: A multiscale overview and the development of a feature-oriented regional modeling system (FORMS)

“…This idea supports the Mooers and Robinson (1984) larger-scale features including offshore eddies, the CUC and coastal trapped waves (e.g. Chao et al, 2008;Haley et al, 2009;Shulman et al, 2009;Ramp et al, 2010-this-issue).…”

“…The relaxation of the upwelling in August is described by Ramp et al (2005) and in Rosenfeld et al (1994). Haley et al (2009) The inshore region of the CTZ is complicated by the poleward flow being interrupted by the summer upwelling jets flowing equatorward near the mouth of Monterey Bay . The water-mass characteristics of the Monterey Bay during the upwelling and relaxation periods were described in detail by Warn-Varnas et al (2007).…”

Assimilating en-route Lagrangian observations

“…That is, the measurements of position are available at times when the instrument surfaces while a time series of measurements of the auxiliary variables is available in the intervening period. Similar time series are available for gliders and some of these observations from gliders have been put to limited use in previous studies (Haley et al, 2009;Zhang et al, 2010;Yaremchuk et al, 2011;Jones et al, 2012). Gliders are 'semi-Lagrangian' in nature.…”