Development and validation of a coastal ocean forecasting system for Puerto Rico and the *** islands

作     者：M.Solano M.Canals S.Leonardi 

作者机构：Naval Research Laboratory Stennis Space CenterMS 39529-5004 Center for Ocean Science and EngineeringDepartment of engineering Sciences and MaterialsCaribbean Coastal Ocean Observing SystemUniversity of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez Dept.Mechanical EngineeringThe University of Texas at DallasTX USA 

出 版 物：《Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science》 (海洋工程与科学（英文）)

年 卷 期：2018年第3卷第3期

页      面：223-236页

核心收录：

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 0908[农学-水产] 07[理学] 0707[理学-海洋科学] 0815[工学-水利工程] 0824[工学-船舶与海洋工程] 

基　　金：This work was funded by CARICOOS(NOAA IOOS Grant NA11NOS0120035) 

主　　题：Ocean modeling Operational oceanography Forecasting 

摘      要：An ocean forecasting system has been developed for the coastal area of Puerto Rico and the *** *** paper presents the development and validation of the Puerto Rico Operational Regional Ocean Modeling System(PRO-ROMS)developed by the Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System(CARICOOS),which aims at improving currently available short-term forecasts of ocean currents for this region,and to resolve sub-mesoscale variability absent from the currently operational regional *** coastal ocean forecasting system is based on the Regional Ocean Modeling System(ROMS),and provides a 3-day forecast of ocean currents,water levels,temperature and *** and lateral boundary conditions are derived from the *** Oceanographic Office(NAVOCEANO)operational AmSeas forecasting system,a 3.6-km resolution application of the regional Navy Coastal Ocean Model(NCOM)that encompasses the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean *** conditions are interpolated from the Navy’s Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System(COAMPS)with the exception of surface stresses,which are computed from a 2-km application of the Weather Research and Forecasting(WRF)model used by National Centers for Environmental Protection’s(NCEP)National Digital Forecast Database(NDFD).Tidal variability is imposed using ROMS spectral forcing by specifying the harmonic phases and amplitudes from the TPXO global inverse tide solutions at the boundaries and sub-tidal conditions are imposed by filtering out high frequencies of barotropic variables from the lateral boundary conditions interpolated from *** results of sea surface height are validated with NOAA tide gauges,ocean currents are validated with Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers(ADCP)and High Frequency Radars(HFR).Computed statistics show improvement of the ocean current forecast in PRO-ROMS compared to AmSeas,especially at higher frequencies dominated by the tides and in small channels where the bathymetry is