Hydrographic data from the OPTOMA program OPTOMA21 7 - 20 July 1986

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Authors
Wittman, Paul A.
Ciandro, Melissa L.
Bird, Arlene A.
Mooers, C. N. K.(Christopher N. K.)
Subjects
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Date of Issue
1987-01
Date
7 - 20 July, 1986
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
The OPTOMA (Ocean Prediction Through Observation, Modeling and Analysis) program, a joint NPS/Harvard program sponsored by ONR, seeks to understand the mesoscale (fronts, eddies, and jets) variability and dynamics of the California current systems and to determine the scientific limits to practical mesoscale ocean forecasting. To help carry out the aims of this project a series of cruises has been planned two subdomains, nocal and cencal. Optoma21 was a multidisciplinary study which took place from 7 to 20 July 1986 aboard the R/V Point Sur in the nocal domain. In addition to conducting a quasi- synoptic CTD/XBT mapping of a cool anomaly, meandering jet, and eddy system, measurements were made to determine: 1) the fine scale variability of the upper ocean mass and velocity fields; 2) the upper ocean nutrient, optical and phytoplankton fields; and 3) the structure of the zooplankton population. In this report, the CTD/XBT data are presented
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Technical Report
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Department
Oceanography
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NPS Report Number
NPS-68-87-001
Sponsors
research project "Ocean Prediction Through Observation, Modeling and Analysis" sponsored by the Physical Oceanography Program of the Office of Naval Research under Program Element 61153N.
Funder
N000146WR24027
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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