A numerical study of the effect of hurricane wind asymmetry on storm surge and inundation

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 71-79

  Xie, Lian ^a   Liu, Huiqing ^a   Liu, Bin ^a   Bao, Shaowu ^b,c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricane Floyd; Inundation; Storm surge; Wind asymmetry

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC STRUCTURES; BALANCED MODELS; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; DOMAIN SIZE; HURRICANE WIND FIELDS; INUNDATION; MAXIMUM WIND SPEED; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; STORM INTENSITY; STORM SURGE; STORM SURGES; STORM TRACK; TRANSLATION SPEED; WIND FIELD; WIND SPEED;

DRAG; EXPERIMENTS; FLOODS; HURRICANES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WIND EFFECTS;

STORMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG COEFFICIENT; HURRICANE; HURRICANE FLOYD 1999; NUMERICAL MODEL; STORM SURGE; STORM TRACK; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 78649912175     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2010.10.001     Document Type: Article

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