Initial conditions

• The upstream speed and depth I gave Audrey.
• The pressure gradient forcing the region.

Model results

• The model domain, a simplification of the California coastline.
• Audrey's initial speed and depth, in plan view and at Cape Mendocino.  y>0

Initially flow is in cross-shore geostrophic balance, alongshore pressure grad balances friction.   Why? Then spin up is faster.
 
• The along coast speed and depth after model is spun up, at 27 hours.
• Plan view of speed and depth after spin up.
• Section at Cape Mendocino.

June 12 data

• Climatology
• June wind stress from Nelson 1977
• Summer large-scale pressure gradients from Mass and Bond, 1996
• Buoy data
• Buoy wind time series
• Along-coast  winds and pressure, and
• Air and SST temperature for comparison with model's along-coast slice.  The location buoys as distance from Cape Mendocino is mapped here.
• Aircraft
• Individual profiles.
• Cross sectional slices of contoured data.

• Maps of
• Froude number,
• average potential temperature,
• layer depth and speed .

Inversion strength is shown by change in temperature across the inversion and
• contrast in moisture between the MABL and the inversion layer.
• Mixing diagrams
• Richardson number
• Balloon sounding data not available.
• Profiler data along the west coast at 20Z
• Animation of cloud images

Please send comments or questions to me at kate@coast.ucsd.edu