Evaluation of the Real-Time Ocean Forecast System in Florida Atlantic Coastal Waters
2007-2008
This project was the continuation of a series of summer undergraduate Marine Field Projects courses at Florida Tech. A key element of these courses involved students planning and executing a multidisciplinary 4-day/3-night research cruise aboard the R/V Gulf Stream Eagle, complete with a comprehensive research proposal, science objectives, and cruise plans. After the completion of the course, I worked with Mr. Michael Splitt, Assistant Professor of Meteorology, to further develop the cruise oceanography project.
The project involved using in situ ocean temperature, salinity, and current speed and direction data collected on a June 2007 cruise in the vacinity of the western boundary of the Gulf Stream to validate the Real-Time Ocean Forecast System (RTOFS) for the nearshore Atlantic coastal waters of southeast Florida. We compared RTOFS forecasts to these data and to buoy data from the NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC). Insights from these comparisons provided a basis for spatial and temporal bias evaluation of RTOFS during Fall 2007.
Posters and Presentations
Grossi, M.D. (2007) Evaluation of the Real-Time Ocean Forecast System in Florida Atlantic Coastal Waters, Florida Institute of Technology Department of Maine & Environmental Systems Summer Symposium, Melbourne, FL. (Both oral and poster presentation)
Splitt, M.E., M.D. Grossi (2008) Evaluation of the Real-Time Ocean Forecast System in Florida Atlantic Coastal Waters, 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting, March 2-7, 2008, Orlando, FL.