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  • SBC LTER: Ocean: HFR-derived surface flow metrics, surface water retention times, and related factors in the Santa Barbara Channel (2012-2019)
  • Brokaw, Ricky
    Siegel, David A
    Washburn, Libe
  • 2023-09-07
  • Brokaw, R., D. Siegel, and L. Washburn. 2023. SBC LTER: Ocean: HFR-derived surface flow metrics, surface water retention times, and related factors in the Santa Barbara Channel (2012-2019) ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/DOI_PLACE_HOLDER (Accessed 2024-12-28).

  • These data package include: 1. daily maps of High-Frequency Radar (HFR) measured surface currents, indices of mesoscale eddy locations, and local retention times on a 2km grid; 2. monthly time series of wind stress, alongshore pressure gradient, surface current EOF principal components, vorticity, eddy area, eddy presence, and spatially averaged retention times from January 2012 to December 2019; 3. A MATLAB script for plotting the figures. We focus on investigating the drivers of surface water retention in the Santa Barbara Channel, CA, details of which are available in the study:

    Brokaw, R.J., D.A. Siegel, and L. Washburn (2023). Physical Drivers of Surface Water Retention in the Santa Barbara Channel. [In preparation for Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.]

  • N: 34.9967      S: 33.0009      E: -118.9913      W: -120.9902
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