Ocean Prediction Research: Regional Forecasting, Process and Methodology. A Forecast Scheme for the Iceland-Faeroes Front in the GIUK Gap

• Main Author: Robinson, Allan R.
• Other Authors: HARVARD UNIV CAMBRIDGE MA DIV OF APPLIED SCIENCES
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1989
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; *FRONTS(OCEANOGRAPHY); DATA BASES; PREDICTIONS; DYNAMICS; ICELAND; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; OCEANS; KINEMATICS; FORECASTING; HIGH LATITUDES; ARCTIC REGIONS; NEWCASTING; EAST ICELAND POLAR FRONT; BATHYTHERMOGRAPH DATA; GIUK GAP; PE6243SN; WUDA258080; Arctic; Iceland
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA238462; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA238462

This was a project for research on the phenomenology, kinematics and dynamics of the East Iceland Polar front related to its mesoscale variability and for the development of a nowcast and forecast scheme for the frontal variability between Iceland and the Faeroe Islands. To investigate the time and space scales of variability, kinematics of mesoscale meandering, instabilities and eddies, and the feasibility of forecasting and the issues involved in the development of a forecast scheme, a (quasi) connected synoptic time series of synoptic realizations of the frontal system was acquired. The data set consisted of 29 AXBT maps obtained between April and October 1987.