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Introduction To Special Section On The U.S. Ioos Coastal And Ocean Modeling Testbed, Richard A. Luettich Jr, L. Donelson Wright, Richard Signell, Carl T. Friedrichs, Marjorie A.M. Friedrichs, John Harding, Katja Fennel, Eoin Howlett, Sara Graves, Elizabeth Smith, Gary Crane, Rebecca Baltes Nov 2013

Introduction To Special Section On The U.S. Ioos Coastal And Ocean Modeling Testbed, Richard A. Luettich Jr, L. Donelson Wright, Richard Signell, Carl T. Friedrichs, Marjorie A.M. Friedrichs, John Harding, Katja Fennel, Eoin Howlett, Sara Graves, Elizabeth Smith, Gary Crane, Rebecca Baltes

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Strong and strategic collaborations among experts from academia, federal operational centers, and industry have been forged to create a U.S. IOOS Coastal and Ocean Modeling Testbed (COMT). The COMT mission is to accelerate the transition of scientific and technical advances from the coastal and ocean modeling research community to improved operational ocean products and services. This is achieved via the evaluation of existing technology or the development of new technology depending on the status of technology within the research community. The initial phase of the COMT has addressed three coastal and ocean prediction challenges of great societal importance: estuarine hypoxia …


Us Ioos Coastal And Ocean Modeling Testbed: Inter-Model Evaluation Of Tides, Waves, And Hurricane Surge In The Gulf Of Mexico, Pc Kerr, As Donahue, Jj Westerliink, Ra Luettich, Ly Zheng, Rh Weisberg, Y Huang, Harry V. Wang, Y Teng, David R. Forrest, Et Al Oct 2013

Us Ioos Coastal And Ocean Modeling Testbed: Inter-Model Evaluation Of Tides, Waves, And Hurricane Surge In The Gulf Of Mexico, Pc Kerr, As Donahue, Jj Westerliink, Ra Luettich, Ly Zheng, Rh Weisberg, Y Huang, Harry V. Wang, Y Teng, David R. Forrest, Et Al

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A Gulf of Mexico performance evaluation and comparison of coastal circulation and wave models was executed through harmonic analyses of tidal simulations, hindcasts of Hurricane Ike (2008) and Rita (2005), and a benchmarking study. Three unstructured coastal circulation models (ADCIRC, FVCOM, and SELFE) validated with similar skill on a new common Gulf scale mesh (ULLR) with identical frictional parameterization and forcing for the tidal validation and hurricane hindcasts. Coupled circulation and wave models, SWAN+ADCIRC and WWMII+SELFE, along with FVCOM loosely coupled with SWAN, also validated with similar skill. NOAA's official operational forecast storm surge model (SLOSH) was implemented on local …


Progress Of Regional Oceanography Study Associated With Western Boundary Current In The South China Sea, Dongxiao Wang, Qinyan Liu, Qiang Xie, Zhigang He, Wei Zhuang, Yeqiang Shu, Xianjun Xiao, Bo Hong, Xiangyu Wu, Dandan Sui Apr 2013

Progress Of Regional Oceanography Study Associated With Western Boundary Current In The South China Sea, Dongxiao Wang, Qinyan Liu, Qiang Xie, Zhigang He, Wei Zhuang, Yeqiang Shu, Xianjun Xiao, Bo Hong, Xiangyu Wu, Dandan Sui

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Recent progress of physical oceanography in the South China Sea (SCS) associated with the western boundary current (WBC) and eddies is reviewed in this paper. It includes Argo observations of the WBC, eddy detection in the WBC based on satellite images, cross-continental shelf exchange in the WBC, eddy-current interaction, interannual variability of the WBC, air-sea interaction, the SCS throughflow (SCSTF), among others. The WBC in the SCS is strong, and its structure, variability and dynamic processes on seasonal and interannual time scales are yet to be fully understood. In this paper, we summarize progresses on the variability of the WBC, …


Simulated Tsunami Inundation For A Range Of Cascadia Megathrust Earthquake Scenarios At Bandon, Oregon, Usa, Rc Witter, Yinglong J. Zhang, Kl Wang, Gr Priest, C Goldfinger Jan 2013

Simulated Tsunami Inundation For A Range Of Cascadia Megathrust Earthquake Scenarios At Bandon, Oregon, Usa, Rc Witter, Yinglong J. Zhang, Kl Wang, Gr Priest, C Goldfinger

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Characterizations of tsunami hazards along the Cascadia subduction zone hinge on uncertainties in megathrust rupture models used for simulating tsunami inundation. To explore these uncertainties, we constructed 15 megathrust earthquake scenarios using rupture models that supply the initial conditions for tsunami simulations at Bandon, Oregon. Tsunami inundation varies with the amount and distribution of fault slip assigned to rupture models, including models where slip is partitioned to a splay fault in the accretionary wedge and models that vary the updip limit of slip on a buried fault. Constraints on fault slip come from onshore and offshore paleoseismological evidence. We rank …