Predictability of Particle Trajectories in the Ocean

1) A comprehensive testing and validation of a method, which relies on assimilation of Lagrangian data into Lagrangian particle models in order to estimate the velocity field in the vicinity of buoy trajectories and to address the problem of prediction of Lagrangian trajectories have been completed, leading to the publication of 3 papers (Ozgokmen et al., 2000a; Castellari et al., 2001; Ozgokmen et al., 2001).