A California Coastal Ocean Model and Data Assimilation System: Validation and the 2014-2016 Warming Event

John D Farrara1, Yi Chao2, Hongchun Zhang3, Kevin J Armenta4, Luca Raffaele Centurioni5, Francisco Chavez6, James B Girton7 and Daniel L Rudnick5, (1)Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Remote Sensing Solutions, Monrovia, CA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, la crescenta, CA, United States, (4)California Polytechnic State University, Physics Department, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States, (5)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (6)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (7)University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States