Circulation and Ecosystem Modeling for the Oregon Shelf

9711481艾伦研究将在沿海海洋过程方案(COOP)的主持下进行。将对俄勒冈州大陆架和陆坡的物理循环和生态系统动力学进行模拟研究。这项研究项目的目的是了解并能够模拟美国西北太平洋海岸外受风强迫的大陆架流场中的物理海洋环流过程和伴随的生态系统动力学。目标包括将高分辨率数值环流和生态系统模式应用于过程研究和直接模拟大陆架和斜坡流场，以研究风强迫跨陆架运输过程所涉及的物理和生物机制。这项研究旨在为未来的沿海海洋过程(COOP)计划的现场试验做准备，应用高分辨率、有限区域的陆架环流和生态系统模式。该模型将被用来帮助理解观测到的流场中的物理和生物过程，方法是对必须不完整的测量数据进行内插或外推，并进行直接相关的过程研究。

9711481 Allen Research will be conducted under the auspices of the Coastal Ocean Processes Program (CoOP). A modeling study will be undertaken of the physical circulation and ecosystem dynamics on the Oregon continental shelf and slope. The objective of this research project is to understand and be able to model physical oceanographic circulation processes and accompanying ecosystem dynamics in the wind-forced continental shelf flow fields off the U.S. northwest Pacific coast. Objectives include the application of high resolution numerical circulation and ecosystem models to both process studies and to direct simulations of continental shelf and slope flow fields for investigation of the physical and biological mechanisms involved in wind-forced across-shelf transport processes. It is intended that this study will prepare for future Coastal Ocean Processes (CoOP) program field experiments with application of a high-resolution, limited-area, regional shelf circulation and ecosystem model. That model would be used to help understand the physical and biological processes in the observed flow fields by providing interpolation or extrapolation of necessarily incomplete measurements and by enabling directly relevant process studies.