Team member deploying bouy

PBJ Team

Objectives

This project will deliver a synergistic and holistic assessment of the internal wavefield combining
novel applications of high technology readiness level observing methods with high performance
computations and theory. This team seeks to answer are: ‘How much’? and
‘How do we understand the interplay between the pieces -missing and/or included in the OCMs -
and the end result’? A better understanding of the interplay between the key processes modulating
the internal wave field is the core merit in this project.

Top Level Tasks

Deploy a moored array in the Brazil Basin to quantify near boundary flow distortions due to topography, internal wave breaking, and momentum and
buoyancy fluxes.

Create a regional statistical characterization of the oceanic internal wavefield in the Sub-Tropical South Atlantic.

Compare observed regional characterisation to 5 different models ranging from HYCOM, ROM, LES to a quai-analytical model.

Team Members

Anna (Yonglin) Huang : Georgia Tech

Anna (Yonglin) Huang

Georgia Tech

yonglin@gatech.edu
Annalisa Bracco : Georgia Tech

Annalisa Bracco

Georgia Tech

abracco@gatech.edu
Cheryl Ann Blain : Naval Research Laboratory Remote Sensing Division

Cheryl Ann Blain

Naval Research Laboratory Remote Sensing Division

cheryl.blain@nrl.navy.mil
Jacob Wenegrat : Univ. Maryland

Jacob Wenegrat

Univ. Maryland

wenegrat@umd.edu
Joe Kuehl : Univ. Deleware

Joe Kuehl

Univ. Deleware

JKuehl@udel.edu
Kurt Polzin : WHOI

Kurt Polzin

WHOI

kpolzin@whoi.edu
Ljuba Novi : Georgia Tech

Ljuba Novi

Georgia Tech

lnovi3@gatech.edu
Sandy Williams : Nobska Development Corp.

Sandy Williams

Nobska Development Corp.

awilliams@whoi.edu
Victoria Whitley : Univ. Maryland

Victoria Whitley

Univ. Maryland

whitleyv@umd.edu
Vitalii Sheremet : Okeanolog

Vitalii Sheremet

Okeanolog

vsheremet@whoi.edu
Yalin	Fan : Naval Research Laboratory

Yalin Fan

Naval Research Laboratory

yalin.fan@nrlssc.navy.mil
Zihan Chen : Univ. Maryland

Zihan Chen

Univ. Maryland

zchen43@umd.edu