The Heat Budget for Mt. Hope Bay
(SMAST Technical Report No. SMAST-03-0801)
Y. Fan and W.S. Brown
The School for Marine Science and Technology
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

 

Table of Contents

FILE 1 (Pages 1-14):
  • Abstract
  • A. Introduction
  • B. The Mt. Hope Bay Model Heat Budget
  • C. The Winter Heat Budget
    • Power Plant Heat Input
    • MHB Temperature: Air-Sea and BPPS Cooling/Heating Only
FILE 2 (Pages 15- 30):
  • D. The Summer Heat Budget
    • Power Plant Heat Input
    • MHB Temperature: Air-Sea and BPPS Cooling/Heating Only
    • Lateral Heat Inputs to MHB
    • Taunton River Heat Input
    • Narragansett Bay (Sakonnet River) Heat Input
    • MHB Temperature: Air-Sea and NB/SR Cooling with BPPS Heating
    • Discussion
  • E. Acknowledgements
  • F. References

FILE 3 (Pages 31- 46):

  • Appendix A: Winter MHB Surface Temperature Maps

FILE 4 Pages 47- 63):

  • Appendix B. Summer MHB Surface Temperature Maps
  • Appendix C: Sensitivity Testing
    • Sensitivity to relative humidity uncertainty
    • Sensitivity to wind speed uncertainty
    • Sensitivity to long-wave radiation (Qb) uncertainty

 

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