Evaluation and sensitivity analysis of an ocean model response to Hurricane Ivan

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 921-945

  Halliwell, Jr ^a,c   Shay, L K ^a   Brewster, J K ^a   Teague, W J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricanes; Ocean models; Sea surfaced temperature; Sensitivity studies

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE LOCATION; AIR SEA FLUX; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CARIBBEAN SEA; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; CURRENT MEASUREMENTS; EYEWALL; GULF OF MEXICO; HIGH WIND SPEED; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; MIXED LAYER; OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEAN FEATURE; OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN RESPONSE; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; OPTIMAL CHOICE; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PRIOR EXPERIENCE; QUASI-OPTIMAL; SEA SURFACED TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TURBULENT HEAT FLUXES; VERTICAL MIXING; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; WIND SPEED; WIND-DRIVEN CURRENTS; YIELD VALUE;

COOLING; DRAG; DRAG COEFFICIENT; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT FLUX; HURRICANES; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DRAG COEFFICIENT; ENTRAINMENT; HEAT FLUX; HURRICANE IVAN 2004; MIXED LAYER; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL MIXING; WIND STRESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 79955040541     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3104.1     Document Type: Article

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