On the sensitivity of hurricane storm surge simulation to domain size

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 67, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-12

  Li, Rui ^a,b   Xie, Lian ^b   Liu, Bin ^b   Guan, Changlong ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain size; Hurricane; Storm surge; Threshold domain size

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DOMAIN SIZE; HURRICANE INTENSITY; HURRICANE LANDFALL; HURRICANE PARAMETERS; HURRICANE STORM SURGE; STORM SURGES; TOPOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS;

EXPERIMENTS; FLOODS; STORMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

HURRICANES;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; HURRICANE CHARLEY 2004; STORM SURGE; STORM TRACK; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; THRESHOLD; TOPOGRAPHY; WIND;

EID: 84876728425     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2013.03.005     Document Type: Article

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