Development of a Relocatable Coastal Forecast System - Korean Coast Application

Abstract

The goal is to fulfill the US Navy's need for a relocatable, robust operational coastal forecast system by developing and transitioning a high-resolution, coastal circulation model into the Naval Oceanographic Office's operational environment. The coastal circulation model undergoing transition is a three-dimensional, finite-element based hydrodynamic model, the Advanced Circulation Model for Shelves, Coastal Seas, and Estuaries (ADCIRC). Its unstructured grid allows modeling complex coastal regions at fine spatial scale. Scripts and programs are developed to automate major tasks of the forecast run stream such as initial setup, forcing data acquisition, model configuration and post-processing. An application of the ADCIRC-based forecast system to the Korean West Coast region is presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 09, 2009
Accession Number
ADA509758

Entities

People

  • Cheryl A. Blain
  • Yifei P. Chu

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Coastal Regions
  • Data Acquisition
  • Databases
  • Environment
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geometry
  • Graphical User Interface
  • High Resolution
  • Military Research
  • Oceans
  • Operating Systems
  • Regions
  • Shell Scripts
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Yellow Sea

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)