{"id":221,"date":"2012-09-23T23:22:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T03:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi-tsunami\/?page_id=221"},"modified":"2012-10-24T19:55:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T23:55:57","slug":"modeling-tides-and-storm-surges","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi-tsunami\/program\/modeling-tides-and-storm-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"Modeling tides and storm surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>by <a title=\"Cheryl Ann Blain\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi-tsunami\/people\/cheryl-ann-blain\/\">Dr Cheryl Ann Blain<\/a><\/h3>\n<address>Oceanography Division, Naval Research Laboratory<\/address>\n<h3>Syllabus<\/h3>\n<p>(1)\u00a0What are tides and storm surge?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Driving forces: tides, wind<\/li>\n<li> Modifying processes: friction, mixing<\/li>\n<li> Governing equations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(2)\u00a0Atmospheric model formulations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Numerical methods<\/li>\n<li>Physical parameterizations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(3)\u00a0Winds that drive surges<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extratropical cyclones, mesoscale jets, tropical cyclones<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(4)\u00a0Numerical representation of tides and storm surge<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ADCIRC model<\/li>\n<li>GWCE equations (what and why)<\/li>\n<li>Projections for spherical coordinates<\/li>\n<li>Numerical discretization (time and space)<\/li>\n<li>Solution strategies (implications for parallelization)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(5) Finite element mesh generation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bathymetry\/topography\/shoreline<\/li>\n<li>Approaches and strategies (resolution, minimization of error; Tools (MeshGUI, SMS, TriGrid)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hands-on activity: <\/strong>mesh generation with MeshGUI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(6) \u00a0Model configuration<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Land cover\/use; tides (nodal factors, boundary conditions, global databases)<\/li>\n<li>Wind models (symmetric vortex, asymmetric vortex, met. models)<\/li>\n<li>River treatment<\/li>\n<li>Other parameters (time step, friction, tauo, wetting\/drying, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Computational considerations (resolution, processors, time to solution)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(5) \u00a0Case studies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tides<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Katrina<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Irene<\/li>\n<li>Bay St. Louis: wave-current interaction?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hands-on activity: <\/strong>to configure a simple tide-surge application using ADCIRC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dr Cheryl Ann Blain Oceanography Division, Naval Research Laboratory Syllabus (1)\u00a0What are tides and storm surge? Driving forces: tides, wind Modifying processes: friction, mixing Governing equations. (2)\u00a0Atmospheric model formulations Numerical methods Physical parameterizations (3)\u00a0Winds that drive surges Extratropical cyclones, mesoscale jets, tropical cyclones (4)\u00a0Numerical representation of tides and storm surge ADCIRC model GWCE equations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6513,"featured_media":0,"parent":188,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi-tsunami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi-tsunami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi-tsunami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi-tsunami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi-tsunami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi-tsunami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi-tsunami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221\/revisions\/517"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi-tsunami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi-tsunami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}