Accession Number:

ADA509758

Title:

Development of a Relocatable Coastal Forecast System - Korean Coast Application

Descriptive Note:

Conference paper

Corporate Author:

NAVAL RESEARCH LAB STENNIS SPACE CENTER MS

Personal Author(s):

• Chu, Yifei P.
• Blain, Cheryl A.

Report Date:

2009-10-09

Pagination or Media Count:

9.0

Abstract:

The goal is to fulfill the US Navys need for a relocatable, robust operational coastal forecast system by developing and transitioning a high-resolution, coastal circulation model into the Naval Oceanographic Offices operational environment. The coastal circulation model undergoing transition is a three-dimensional, finite-element based hydrodynamic model, the Advanced Circulation Model for Shelves, Coastal Seas, and Estuaries ADCIRC. Its unstructured grid allows modeling complex coastal regions at fine spatial scale. Scripts and programs are developed to automate major tasks of the forecast run stream such as initial setup, forcing data acquisition, model configuration and post-processing. An application of the ADCIRC-based forecast system to the Korean West Coast region is presented.

Descriptors:

• *HYDRODYNAMICS
• *COASTAL REGIONS
• FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS
• GRIDS
• FORECASTING
• ESTUARIES
• THREE DIMENSIONAL
• DATA ACQUISITION
• KOREA
• BAROMETRIC PRESSURE
• CIRCULATION
• MODELS
• SIMULATION
• HIGH RESOLUTION

Subject Categories:

• Meteorology
• Geography
• Fluid Mechanics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE