Toward a reliable wave hindcast/forecast in the Bering Sea

1. To validate the quality of available wind products through application of the WAM model Cycle 4.5 and satellite observations
2. To analyze effects of high resolution atmospheric model downscaling and data assimilation
3. To analyze summer surface wave condition in the Bering Sea during the years, 2007-2011
4. To explore the possibility of developing a new algorithm for a dynamically constrained minimizing function without employing the adjoint of the dynamical system (Chukchi Sea application – see bottom right of this poster)