The structure of the wind-driven circulation in the subtropical South Pacific is studied using simple diagnostic and analytical models. The diagnostic calculation is based on the Levitus climatology. The analytical model is forced by observed winter mixed layer density and depth calculated from the Levitus climatology and by the surface wind stress data from the Hellerman and Rosenstein climato...

Simplifications used in regional climate models decrease the accuracy of the regional climate models. To overcome this deficiency, usually a statistical technique of MOS is used to improve the skill of gridded outputs of the Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models. In this paper, an experimental synoptic-climatology based method has been used to calibrate, and decrease amount of errors in GFS...

s are listed alphabetically by presenting author. Bio-physics of seabird occurrence in the northern California Current D. Ainley (Harvey & Associates), K. Dugger, R. Brodeur, D. Presser, J. Barth, S. Pierce, G. Ford, C. Tynan, L. Spear Using data from Northeast Pacific GLOBEC 2000 and 2002 process cruises, we modeled the biological and physical factors that explain seabird occurrence during the...

A new objective method to determine the height of the planetary boundary layer (PBL) is presented here. PBL heights are computed using the statistical variance and kurtosis of dewpoint and virtual potential temperature differences measured from radio soundings at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program at the Southern Great Plains (SGP) site. These height...