The approach is to incorporate latest developments in turbulence and tidal research and modeling into ROMS. This project complements well, the AESOP program, the ONR DRI on subgrid-scale parameterization and skill assessment of numerical ocean models as well as the new Characterization and Modeling of Archipelago Strait Dynamics (CMASD) DRI. Using the Adriatic Sea (and North Indian Ocean) ROMS/...

In field experiments photoinhibition of photosynthesis'in the intertidal brown alga Fucus serratus was investigated by means of both fluorescence and oxygen measurements. Samples were taken from thalli floating just below the water surface. Dunng falling tides the ratio variable fluorescence/maxlrnum fluorescence (FJF,) decreased with increasing photon fluence rates. As during rising tides only...