A numerical study of wave-current interaction through surface and bottom stresses: Coastal ocean response to Hurricane Fran of 1996

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Xie, L ^a   Pietrafesa, L J ^a   Wu, K ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Storm surge; Surface waves; Wave current interaction

Indexed keywords

COASTAL CURRENT; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; STORM SURGE; SURFACE WAVE; WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84957818422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jc001078     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Chen, J., The comparison of two parametric wind models for hurricane storm surge prediction, Mausam, 48, 579-586, 1997.
2. Davies, A. M., and J. Lawrence, Modeling the effect of wave-current interaction on the three-dimensional wind-driven circulation of the Eastern Irish Sea, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 25, 29-45, 1995.
3. Donelan, W. A., F. W. Dobson, and S. D. Smith, On the dependence of sea surface roughness on wave development, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 23, 2143-2149, 1993.
4. Grant, W. D., and O. S. Madsen, Combined wave and current interaction with a rough bottom, J. Geophys. Res., 84, 1797-1808, 1979.
5. Ginis, I., and G. Sutyrin, Analytical and numerical studies of the hurricane-generated depth-averaged currents and sea surface effects, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 25, 1218-1242, 1995.
6. Holland, G. J., An analytic model of the wind and pressure profiles in hurricanes, Mon. Weather Rev., 108, 1212-1218, 1980.
7. Huang, N. E., On surface drift currents in the ocean, J. Fluid Mech., 91, 191-208, 1979.
8. Komen, G. J., L. Cavaleri, M. Donelan, K. Hasselmann, S. Hasselmann, and P. A. E. M. Janssen, Dynamics and Modelling of Ocean Waves, 532 pp., Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 1994.
9. Lin, R. Q., and N. E. Huang, The Goddard coastal wave model, 1, Numerical method., J. Phys. Oceanogr., 26, 833-847, 1996.
10. Longuet-Higgins, M. S., and R. W. Stewart, Radiation stress and mass transport in gravity waves, with application to "surf-beats", J. Fluid Mech., 10, 529-549, 1962.
11. Mastenbroek, C., G. Burgers, and P. A. E. M. Janssen, The dynamical coupling of a wave model and a storm surge model through the atmospheric boundary layer, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 23, 1856-1866, 1993.
12. Mellor, G. L., Users Guide for a Three Dimensional, Primitive Equation Numerical Ocean Mode, 39 pp., Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 1996.
13. Phillips, O. M., The Dynamics of Upper Ocean, 336 pp., Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 1997.
14. Pietrafesa, L. J., Shelf-break circulation, fronts and physical oceanography: East and west coast perspectives, in The Shelfbreak: Critical Interface on Continental Margins, SPEM Spec. Publ., 33, 233-250, 1983.
15. Signell, R. P., et al., Effect of wave-current interaction on wind-driven circulation in narrow shallow embayments, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 9671-9678, 1990.
16. Walsh, E. J., et al., Hurricane directional wave spectrum spatial variation at landfall, paper presented at 24th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Am. Meteorol. Soc., Boston, Mass., 2000.
17. WAMDI Group, A third-generation model for wind waves on slowing varying, unsteady and inhomogeneous depths and currents, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 21, 782-797, 1988.
18. Xie, L., L. J. Pietrafesa, E. Bohm, C. Zhang, and X. Li, Evidence and mechanism of hurricane Fran-induced ocean cooling in the Charleston trough, Geophys. Res. Letters, 25, 769-772, 1998.
19. Xie, L., L. J. Pietrafesa, and C. Zhang, Subinertial response of the Gulf Stream system to hurricane Fran of 1996, Geophys. Res. Letters, 26, 3457-3460, 1999.
20. Xie, L., K. Wu, L. J. Pietrafesa, and C. Zhang, A numerical study of wave-current interaction through surface and bottom stresses: Wind-driven circulation in the South Atlantic Bight under uniform winds, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 16,841-16,855, 2001.