Headland Eddy Formation and Dissipation
at Three Tree Point, Washington
Funded by the National Science Foundation (PI's: P. MacCready, G. Pawlak)
The objective of the study is to observe the formation and dissipation of a headland eddy in deep water. Included in this is examination of the vertical structure of vorticity within an eddy and of the baroclinic response of the flow around the sloping headland. The selected site for the observations is Three Tree Point in Puget Sound, WA. The fourth set of observations took place from Sept. 4 through Sept 13, 2002 using the UW R/V Clifford A. Barnes. This set of observations focused on the late stages of eddy evolution and on the velocity structure of the internal lee wave.
Personnel for the first Three Tree Cruise:
G. Pawlak (UH Ocean Engineering)
P. MacCready (UW Oceanography)
R. McCabe (UW Oceanography)
M. Bandet (UH Ocean Engineering)
Tidal currents and cruise schedule
CTD Scheme
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for more info contact:
Geno Pawlak or Parker MacCready
last modified: 02/26/2004