A COAMPS™ reanalysis for the Eastern Pacific:: Properties of the diurnal sea breeze along the central California coast -: art. no. 2203

[1] This paper introduces and evaluates a new atmospheric model reanalysis product for the U. S. west coast from the Navy's operational Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS(TM)) implemented on a triply nested 81/27/9 km grid. Wind measurements from Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) moorings are used to evaluate a two year time series of the model output from October 1998 to October 2000. The model accurately reproduced both the landward decrease in the large-scale wind field and the shoreward intensification of the diurnal cycle during the summer season. This new reanalysis product will be required for accurate high resolution (km) coastal (0-10 km) simulations of the U. S. west coast by ocean models.