Publication Date:
2022-05-26
Description:
A Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment (CODE) has been undertaken to
identify and study the important dynamical processes which govern the
wind-driven motion of coastal water over the continental shelf. The initial
effort in this four-year research program is to obtain high-quality
data sets of all the relevant physical variables needed to construct accurate
kinematic and dynamic descriptions of the response of shelf water
to strong wind forcing in the 2 to 10-day band. A series of two small-scale,
densely-instrumented field experiments of four-month duration
(CODE-1 and CODE-2) is designed to explore and to determine the kinematics
and momentum and heat balances of the local wind-driven flow over a
region of the northern California shelf which is characterized by both
relatively simple bottom topography and large wind stress events in both
winter and summer. A more lightly-instrumented, long-term, large-scale
component has been designed to help separate the local wind-driven response
in the region of the small-scale experiments from motions generated
either offshore by the California Current system or in some distant
region along the coast, and also to help determine the seasonal cycles of
the atmospheric forcing, water structure, and coastal currents over the
northern California shelf.
This report presents an overview of the CODE program and a preliminary
description of the observational programs conducted during CODE-1. The
various logical components of CODE are identified and described, and their
relationship to the entire effort is discussed. The report itself represents
a minor revision of the original cover proposal submitted to NSF in
late 1979 by the principal investigators and is not a comprehensive guide
nor does it contain any descriptions of the initial results from CODE-1.
Scientific and engineering results will be presented elsewhere in individual
technical and scientific reports. CODE has been jointly conceived by
the following principal investigators (who collectively make up the CODE
group): J. Allen , R. Beardsley, W. Brown, 0. Cacchione, R. Davis,
D. Drake , C. Friehe, W. Grant, A. Huyer, J. Irish, M. Janopaul,
A. Williams and C. Winant.
Keywords:
Hydrographic surveying
;
Continental shelf
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Technical Report
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