The Liverpool Bay Coastal Observatory ¿ towards the goals

OCEANS 2006 ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.J. Howarth ◽  
R. Proctor ◽  
P.J. Knight ◽  
M.J. Smithson ◽  
D.K. Mills
Keyword(s):  
Liverpool Bay ◽  
Coastal Observatory

The Liverpool Bay Coastal Observatory — Analysis of Seasonal Cycles

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Proctor ◽  
John Howarth ◽  
Philip J. Knight ◽  
Jason T. Holt ◽  
John Siddorn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Cycles ◽  
Liverpool Bay ◽  
Coastal Observatory

scholarly journals Modelling temperature and salinity in Liverpool Bay and the Irish Sea: sensitivity to model type and surface forcing

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 649-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. K. O'Neill ◽  
J. A. Polton ◽  
J. T. Holt ◽  
E. J. O'Dea
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Salinity Gradient ◽  
Irish Sea ◽  
Surface Salinity ◽  
Diurnal Variability ◽  
Liverpool Bay ◽  
Skill Scores ◽  
Shelf Sea ◽  
Coastal Observatory ◽  
The Irish Sea

Abstract. Three shelf sea models are compared against observed surface temperature and salinity in Liverpool Bay and the Irish Sea: a 7 km NEMO model, and 12 km and 1.8 km POLCOMS models. Each model is run with two different surface forcing datasets of different resolutions. Comparisons with a variety of observations from the Liverpool Bay Coastal Observatory show that increasing the surface forcing resolution improves the modelled surface temperature in all the models, in particular reducing the summer warm bias and winter cool bias. The response of surface salinity is more varied with improvements in some areas and deterioration in others. The 7 km NEMO model performs as well as the 1.8 km POLCOMS model when measured by overall skill scores although the sources of error in the models are different. NEMO is too weakly stratified in Liverpool Bay, whereas POLCOMS is too strongly stratified. The horizontal salinity gradient, which is too strong in POLCOMS, is better reproduced by NEMO which uses a more diffusive horizontal advection scheme. This leads to improved semi-diurnal variability in salinity in NEMO at a mooring site located in the Liverpool Bay ROFI area.

scholarly journals The Liverpool Bay Coastal Observatory

2011 ◽  
Vol 61 (11) ◽  
pp. 1917-1926 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Howarth ◽  
Matthew Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Liverpool Bay ◽  
Coastal Observatory

scholarly journals Processes impacting on stratification in a region of freshwater influence: Application to Liverpool Bay

2009 ◽  
Vol 114 (C11) ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Verspecht ◽  
T. P. Rippeth ◽  
M. J. Howarth ◽  
A. J. Souza ◽  
J. H. Simpson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liverpool Bay ◽  
Freshwater Influence

scholarly journals Assessment of coastal density gradients near a macro-tidal estuary: Application to the Mersey and Liverpool Bay

2014 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 73-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.J. Howarth ◽  
C.A. Balfour ◽  
Rose J.J. Player ◽  
Jeff A. Polton
Keyword(s):  
Density Gradients ◽  
Liverpool Bay ◽  
Tidal Estuary

The XIOM: 20 years of a regional coastal observatory in the Spanish Catalan coast

2009 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Bolaños ◽  
G. Jorda ◽  
J. Cateura ◽  
J. Lopez ◽  
J. Puigdefabregas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Catalan Coast ◽  
Coastal Observatory
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