A high-resolution coupled riverine flow, tide, wind, wind wave, and storm surge model for southern Louisiana and Mississippi. Part I: Model development and validation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 345-377

  Bunya, S ^a,b   Dietrich, J C ^a   Westerink, J J ^a   Ebersole, B A ^c   Smith, J M ^c   Atkinson, J H ^d   Jensen, R ^c   Resio, D T ^c   Luettich, R A ^e   Dawson, C ^f   Cardone, V J ^g   Cox, A T ^g   Powell, M D ^h   Westerink, H J ^a   Roberts, H J ^d  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^d ARCADIS   (United States)

^e University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^g Oceanweather Inc   (United States)

^h NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELS; COASTAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COUPLED SYSTEMS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH WATER; HURRICANE RESEARCH; HURRICANE STORM SURGE; HYDROGRAPHS; IRREGULAR WAVES; KATRINA; KINEMATIC ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; NEARSHORES; NONLINEAR COUPLING; STORM SURGES; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; WAVE MODELS; WIND ANALYSIS; WIND WAVE; WIND-WAVE MODELS;

FLOODS; HURRICANES; KINEMATICS; STORMS; TIDES;

WAVES;

COASTAL CIRCULATION; DATABASE; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; HURRICANE RITA 2005; HYDROGRAPH; LAND COVER; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NOAA SATELLITE; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; STORM SURGE; WIND WAVE;

LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953198044     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2906.1     Document Type: Article

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