Week 5 & 6

Week 5:

Nate showed us how to compile all the Phoebe data into one place in MATLAB so what we could graph it all at once. Specifically, we looked at surface salinity (0-2.5m). After that we compared this layer's salinity to the modeled layer. By comparing these two graphs we were able to point out that at some points the two graphs looked very distinct. We saw that the model predicted higher salinities close to 34 psu. On the other hand the observations graph showed lower salinities, in some cases lower than 30 psu.

The next step was to determine the specific time at which a specific area was constantly around 30 psu. We found that the data were it was constantly 30 psu occurred on May 24 2009. Also, we use the RDFS website to view an animation about surface salinity from May 24, 2009, this animation helped us see what might cause the model to predict wrong. In the animation we saw that the winds were pushing the plume south and high salinity waters coming from the south. After looking at other dates where was model was off we concluded that the wind input was making the model predict wrong. This is not final though, we are still working to determine if this is the case.

Highlights of this week:

• July 21- My birthday!
• July 24- Presenting to the Rising Star's students
  

Week 6:

Basically what we did this week was create a PowerPoint about our finding from last week and we also had to write a report about it. In addition Nate sent us wind data to be graphed on MATLAB. These graphs looked similar to those what we found in the CMOP website.

Highlight of this week:

• July 29- Family Night; we presented our project(s) to our parents
• July 31- Presenting to the Rising Star's students