Description of the river climatology developed for NOS ROMS-based operational oceanographic forecast systems for Chesapeake, Delaware, and Tampa Bays Description of the river climatology developed for National Ocean Service Regional Ocean Modeling System based operational oceanographic forecast systems for Chesapeake, Delaware, and Tampa Bays

"This technical memorandum describes the river climatologies which were developed for the new ROMS-based OFSs for Chesapeake, Delaware, and Tampa Bays by Jay Benedetti, former ERT Intern in MMAP and updated by Yi Chen, present ERT intern. The memorandum includes descriptions of the five river climatologies: 1) daily mean river discharge climatology, 2) daily mean water temperature climatology, 3) daily mean salinity climatology (only for CBOFS), 4) mean annual and extrema river discharge climatology, and 5) mean annual and extrema water temperature climatology"--Introduction. John G.W. Kelley Yi Chen Jay D. Benedetti Euqene Wei Ai-Jun Zhang. "July 2011." System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Includes bibliographical references (page 27).