Department of Oceanography
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, CA 93943-5000

July 25, 2007

Oceanography Seminar

SPEAKER:

George Galanis, Ph.D.

AFFILIATION:

Greek Naval Academy

TITLE:

Wave Modeling in Greek Naval Academy and University of Athens: Operational and Research Activities

DATE:

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

TIME:

12:00 PM

PLACE:

Spanagel 316

ABSTRACT:

The purpose of this seminar is twofold.

The first part will be devoted to the presentation of the operational forecasting activities supported by the Greek Naval Academy and the Atmospheric Modeling Group of the University of Athens. A wide number of atmospheric and wave forecasts is provided in operational mode based on the use of numerical prediction models. During the second part of the talk, a review of some recent research results obtained within the framework of a close cooperation between the Greek Naval Academy, the University of Athens and the Oceanography Department of NPS will be discussed.

More precisely, mathematical processes used for the improvement of the local forecasts of atmospheric and wave models will be presented. These modules are based on a combination of Kalman and Kolmogorov-Zurbenko (KZ) filters and have been successfully applied for the elimination of systematic error that emerged in several different applications.