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The OCEANOL
Program
The researchers in the Ocean Observation Laboratory
(OCEANOL) seek to better understand coastal ocean processes by integrating
modern ocean observations with numerical ocean modeling. Measurements from moorings, coastal high-frequency radar sites, shipboard surveys,
operational satellite imagery and meteorology are integrated into our
studies of various coastal ocean and estuarine domains
including the
Gulf
of Maine, Georges Bank, New England Shelf and Buzzards, Narragansett and Mt. Hope
Bays.
Relevant
historical and operational agency real-time data from such federal agencies as NOAA/NDBC, NOAA/NOS,
NOAA/NWS, and Navy/FNMOC, are integrated and assimilated into
several numerical circulation models for simulation, process studies,
and in a data assimilation mode for hindcasting, nowcasting and forecasting.
Our current research program includes:
• An observational/modeling study of transient tidal eddies east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the Great South Channel of the western Gulf of Maine.
The Sea Grant-funded development of a Gulf of Maine Storm Simulation
and Prediction System that uses operational meteorological and oceanographic
measurements to drive the Dartmouth 3-D prognostic circulation model. 
A NOAA/NMFS-funded program for the rescue
and analysis of historical temperature and biological data under the
auspices of the NOAA/NMFS Environmental Services
Data
and Information Management (ESDIM) program.
A National Science Foundation-funded observation/modeling study
of the formation and evolution of the winter mixed layer in the western
Gulf of Maine.
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| CODAR
system
deployed
OCEANOL
is serving preliminary near real-time surface current
measurments derived from an SMAST
Coastal Ocean Dynamics Applications Radar (CODAR) installation
at Nauset
on outer Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and from the Rutgers University
CODAR installation
on
Nantucket. Visit our CODAR
page for more information about CODAR and our project.
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