2004 LOM Workshop

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Vertical Circulation Patterns Near the Florida Keys/Florida Bay Region

Jorge F. Willemsen, George Halliwell
RSMAS
jorge@rsmas.miami.edu

ABSTRACT

The development of float advection programs for HYCOM has had the interesting side effect of providing a capability to compute and diagnose the vertical velocity (w). We discuss the application of the extraction of w in a nested Keys/Bay domain supplied by Alan Wallcraft. Preliminary results show the presence of transient organized upwelling/downwelling cells as the Gulf Stream approaches the Florida Straits. The temporal and spatial variability will be demonstrated through a series of pictures. The numerical values are not unreasonable for the region.

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LOM Users' Workshop, February 9-11, 2004