Development of a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport (COAWST) Modeling System

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 230-244

  Warner, John C ^a   Armstrong, Brandy ^a   He, Ruoying ^b   Zambon, Joseph B ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled models; ROMS; Sediment transport; SWAN; WRF

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; BOTTOM STRESS; COASTAL CHANGE; COASTAL PROCESS; COASTAL RESOURCES; COASTAL SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; COUPLED MODELS; DATA FIELDS; GRID REFINEMENT; HURRICANE INTENSITY; HURRICANE ISABEL; MODEL COMPONENTS; MODEL COUPLING; MODEL SENSITIVITY; MODELING COMPONENT; MODELING SYSTEMS; OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; PROGNOSTIC VARIABLES; REALISTIC SIMULATION; REGIONAL SCALE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEDIMENT RESUSPENSION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT MODEL; SWAN; WAVE CURRENT INTERACTION; WAVE MODELS; WRF;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COASTAL ZONES; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL MECHANICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; COASTAL SEDIMENT; COASTAL ZONE; HURRICANE ISABEL 2003; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION;

EID: 77956870993     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2010.07.010     Document Type: Article

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