Publication Date:
2022-05-26
Description:
Also published as: Journal of Physical Oceanography (1979) 9: 1294-1297
Description:
It is demonstrated that the outcome of an intercomparison between data and the vertical distribution
of eddy kinetic energy predicted by a previously developed numerical model of the MODE area is
frequency dependent. In the range of periods from 50 to 150 or even to 400 days (one definition of the
temporal mesoscale, the scale that the model was designed to simulate), the comparison is quite good.
For periods in the range of 5 to 50 days, the agreement is poor. For periods longer than 400 days , the
comparison is indeterminate. Earlier conclusions concerning the relation of model results to the MODE
data should be qualified by stipulating frequency range , and future intercomparisons for any model
in all regions should be conscious of the desirability of doing so across common frequencies.
Description:
Prepared for the Office of Naval Research under Contract
N00014-76-C-0197; NR 083-400 and for the International
Decade of Ocean Exploration Office of the National Science
Foundation under Grant OCE 75-03962.
Keywords:
Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment (MODE)
;
Ocean currents
;
Eddies
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Technical Report
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