MIXED Model/measurement Integration eXperiment in Estuary Dynamics

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MIXEDModel/measurementIntegrationeXperiment
in EstuaryDynamics

• Kate Edwards
• PRISM science retreat
• September 27, 2002

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Motivation

• Study coupled ecosystem of south Sound
• Biology, chemistry, circulation, runoff, weather
• Water quality vulnerability
• Integrate, validate PRISM models
• Preparation for other studies domain is entire
  Sound
• Virtual Puget Sound, bloodstream
• Education
• Oceanography fieldwork class
• Oceanography of Puget Sound class
• Collaboration

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Location Carr Inlet
July 1990 aerial photo mosaic, USGS website
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MIXED components

• BioFloat - DAsaro, Reynolds
• O2, chlorophyll following water parcel
  biological productivity
• Surveys - Newton
• O2, chlorophyll, nutrients, productivity
• Integrated physical model - Kawase, Edwards
• Aquatic Biochemistry Model, ORCA - Devol, Emerson
• PRISM - Richey et al
• Students
• You?

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When next Spring bloom
Plots from ORCA, USGS websites data from NDBC.
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An opportunity for you

• Collaboration
• Observations, model results
• Integration
• Your related project?
• Education
• Fieldwork class projects
• Webpage faculty.washington.edu/kae/MIXED/MIXED.ht
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