Development of an ESMF Based Flexible Coupling Application of ADCIRC and WAVEWATCH III for High Fidelity Coastal Inundation Studies
To enable flexible model coupling in coastal inundation studies, a coupling framework based on the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) and the National Unified Operational Prediction Capability (NUOPC) technologies under a common modeling framework called the NOAA Environmental Modeling System (N...
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| author | Saeed Moghimi Andre Van der Westhuysen Ali Abdolali Edward Myers Sergey Vinogradov Zaizhong Ma Fei Liu Avichal Mehra Nicole Kurkowski |
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| description | To enable flexible model coupling in coastal inundation studies, a coupling framework based on the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) and the National Unified Operational Prediction Capability (NUOPC) technologies under a common modeling framework called the NOAA Environmental Modeling System (NEMS) was developed. The framework is essentially a software wrapper around atmospheric, wave and storm surge models that enables its components communicate seamlessly, and efficiently to run in massively parallel environments. For the first time, we are introducing the flexible coupled application of the ADvanced CIRCulation model (ADCIRC) and unstructured fully implicit WAVEWATCH III including NUOPC compliant caps to read Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting Model (HWRF) generated forcing fields. We validated the coupled application for a laboratory test and a full scale inundation case of the Hurricane Ike, 2008, on a high resolution mesh covering the whole US Atlantic coast. We showed that how nonlinear interaction between surface waves and total water level results in significant enhancements and progression of the inundation and wave action into land in and around the hurricane landfall region. We also presented that how the maximum wave setup and maximum surge regions may happen at the various times and locations depending on the storm track and geographical properties of the landfall area. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4b5a44c02d764228a0c72b210a9593542023-11-19T22:55:52ZengMDPI AGJournal of Marine Science and Engineering2077-13122020-04-018530810.3390/jmse8050308Development of an ESMF Based Flexible Coupling Application of ADCIRC and WAVEWATCH III for High Fidelity Coastal Inundation StudiesSaeed Moghimi0Andre Van der Westhuysen1Ali Abdolali2Edward Myers3Sergey Vinogradov4Zaizhong Ma5Fei Liu6Avichal Mehra7Nicole Kurkowski8NOAA Coast Survey Development Laboratory, National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USANWS/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), College Park, MD 20740, USANWS/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), College Park, MD 20740, USANOAA Coast Survey Development Laboratory, National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USANOAA Coast Survey Development Laboratory, National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USANWS/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), College Park, MD 20740, USANOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USANWS/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), College Park, MD 20740, USANOAA Office of Science and Technology Integration, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USATo enable flexible model coupling in coastal inundation studies, a coupling framework based on the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) and the National Unified Operational Prediction Capability (NUOPC) technologies under a common modeling framework called the NOAA Environmental Modeling System (NEMS) was developed. The framework is essentially a software wrapper around atmospheric, wave and storm surge models that enables its components communicate seamlessly, and efficiently to run in massively parallel environments. For the first time, we are introducing the flexible coupled application of the ADvanced CIRCulation model (ADCIRC) and unstructured fully implicit WAVEWATCH III including NUOPC compliant caps to read Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting Model (HWRF) generated forcing fields. We validated the coupled application for a laboratory test and a full scale inundation case of the Hurricane Ike, 2008, on a high resolution mesh covering the whole US Atlantic coast. We showed that how nonlinear interaction between surface waves and total water level results in significant enhancements and progression of the inundation and wave action into land in and around the hurricane landfall region. We also presented that how the maximum wave setup and maximum surge regions may happen at the various times and locations depending on the storm track and geographical properties of the landfall area.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/8/5/308storm surgewind waveshurricane inundationcoastal floodingCOASTAL Actearth system model coupling |
| spellingShingle | Saeed Moghimi Andre Van der Westhuysen Ali Abdolali Edward Myers Sergey Vinogradov Zaizhong Ma Fei Liu Avichal Mehra Nicole Kurkowski Development of an ESMF Based Flexible Coupling Application of ADCIRC and WAVEWATCH III for High Fidelity Coastal Inundation Studies Journal of Marine Science and Engineering storm surge wind waves hurricane inundation coastal flooding COASTAL Act earth system model coupling |
| title | Development of an ESMF Based Flexible Coupling Application of ADCIRC and WAVEWATCH III for High Fidelity Coastal Inundation Studies |
| title_full | Development of an ESMF Based Flexible Coupling Application of ADCIRC and WAVEWATCH III for High Fidelity Coastal Inundation Studies |
| title_fullStr | Development of an ESMF Based Flexible Coupling Application of ADCIRC and WAVEWATCH III for High Fidelity Coastal Inundation Studies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development of an ESMF Based Flexible Coupling Application of ADCIRC and WAVEWATCH III for High Fidelity Coastal Inundation Studies |
| title_short | Development of an ESMF Based Flexible Coupling Application of ADCIRC and WAVEWATCH III for High Fidelity Coastal Inundation Studies |
| title_sort | development of an esmf based flexible coupling application of adcirc and wavewatch iii for high fidelity coastal inundation studies |
| topic | storm surge wind waves hurricane inundation coastal flooding COASTAL Act earth system model coupling |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/8/5/308 |
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