Continental Shelf Embayments of the Eastern Margin of the Philippines: Lamon Bay Stratification and Circulation
- Lead PI: Professor Arnold L. Gordon
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Unit Affiliation: Ocean and Climate Physics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
- May 2013 - April 2015
- Inactive
- Pacific Ocean ; Lamon Bay
- Project Type: Research
DESCRIPTION: The purpose of the grant is to quantify the spatial and temporal characteristics of the ocean processes governing stratification and circulation within Lamon Bay using observations obtained during the R/V Revelle, time series from moorings, and satellite derived data.
OUTCOMES: Kuroshio forms in Lamon Bay as a response to ENSO. Mapped currents and salinity changes.