Journal article
Nonbreaking wave-induced mixing in upper ocean during tropical cyclones using coupled hurricane-ocean-wave modeling
S Aijaz, M Ghantous, AV Babanin, I Ginis, B Thomas, G Wake
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans | AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION | Published : 2017
DOI: 10.1002/2016JC012219
Abstract
The effects of turbulence generated by nonbreaking waves have been investigated by testing and evaluating a new nonbreaking wave parameterization in a coupled hurricane-ocean-wave model. The MPI version of the Princeton Ocean Model (POM) with hurricane forcing is coupled with the WAVEWATCH-III (WW3) surface wave model. Hurricane Ivan is chosen as the test case due to its extreme intensity and availability of field data during its passage. The model results are validated against field observations of wave heights and sea surface temperatures (SSTs) from the National Data Buoy Centre (NDBC) during Hurricane Ivan and against limited in situ current and bottom temperature data. A series of numer..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Thc authors gratefully acknowledge funding for this study from the Australian Research Council Discovery grant DP130100227 and the U.S. Office of Naval Research grant N00014-13-10278. The TC Olwyn data were provided by Woodside Energy Ltd. The manuscript greatly benefitted from the comments provided by Jasper Wijnands of the University of Melbourne, and by the anonymous reviewers. The simulations were performed on the gSTAR National facility at the Swinburne University of Technology. gSTAR is funded by the Swinburne and the Australian Government's Education Investment Fund. All data presented in this paper have been referenced in figures, tables, text, and references. Satellite data has been sourced from http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/datasetlist?ids=&values=&search=GHRSSTR,view= list.