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Visualization of temperature and horizontal velocities in the California Current System
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Sam McClatchie
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2017-06-23 12:49
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ROMS model temperature, u,and v during the 1997-99 ENSO
Submitted by Sam McClatchie on
ROMS output provided by the University of California Santa Cruz ROMS group (http://oceanmodeling.ucsc.edu/reanalccs31/)
Visualization imagery was produced using VAPOR (www.vapor.ucar.edu), a product of the Computational Information Systems Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research
Key points
Submitted by Sam McClatchie on
Each frame represents a 4-day time step.
Both the temperature data and the velocity data are dominated by mesoscale variability.
Both the north-south (v) and east-west (u) (horizontal) currents are complex and dynamic, presenting a view that is quite different from the time averaged current flows often portrayed in maps of the California Current and the California Undercurrent. (NOTE: southward velocity is -v, northward is +v. Westward velocity is -u, eastward is +u. Bathymetry is black.).
There is a surprising influence of offshore, Central Gyre influenced water on the CalCOFI region during this ENSO event, as shown by both the warm temperatures (exagerating the seasonal signal) and the east-west currents. The currents show a more persistent signal than the temperature.