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2002 LAPCOD Meeting
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Drifter trajectories in Florida Straits based on surface velocity fields from East Florida Shelf Coastal Ocean Model
Jerome Fiechter, Christopher N.K. Mooers
RSMAS/AMP University of Miami
jfiechter@rsmas.miami.edu(Abstract received 11/01/2002 for session B)
ABSTRACT
The velocity fields from a 3-D ocean model of the East Florida Shelf are used to simulate surface drifter trajectories in the Straits of Florida. The model (POM with curvilinear grid, 2-6km horizontal resolution, 25 sigma levels) is being implemented within the SEA-COOS program and is designed to provide real-time, high-resolution ocean data in its regional domain. While still at a developmental stage, the results demonstrate interesting potential to study synoptic and mesoscale features associated with the Florida Current meanders and frontal eddies. The ability to predict particle trajectories, both at the surface and near the bottom, also has direct implications for ecosystem modeling in the Florida Keys, namely to investigate dispersal and recruitment of larvae along the reef tract.
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2002 LAPCOD Meeting, Key Largo, Florida, December 12-16, 2000