Typhoon-Ocean Interaction: The Ocean Response to Typhoons, and Its Feedback to Typhoon Intensity - Synergy of Observations and Model Simulations

Abstract

Long-term goals are: 1. Measuring the response of the upper ocean to strong typhoons (including surface waves, air-sea fluxes, temperature, salinity, and velocity structure) both in simple, open ocean conditions and in the more complex conditions caused by ocean eddies, the Kuroshio and complex, shallow bathymetry. 2. Understanding key upper ocean precesses, validating the simulation of upper ocean models, testing key parameterizations of upper ocean physics used in these models, and studying the feedback from the ocean to typhoon intensity. Scientific or technological objectives are: 1. Investigation of the roles of upper-ocean thermal structures (eddies and wakes) on typhoon-ocean interaction. 2. Understanding the feedback of the typhoon-ocean interaction to typhoon intensity and structure evolution. 3. Conducting real-case numerical simulation experiments (WRF-PWP coupled model) with the TPARC (DOTSTAR, TCS-08, TCS-10) and ITOP data. 4. Monitoring of forming storms in the Pacific ocean to predict the track and strength in order to determine the optimal location for the aerial deployment of the drifters, floats and AXBT, as well as the best way for the ships based scientist to study the cold wake after the storm.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA542426

Entities

People

  • Chun-Chieh Wu

Organizations

  • National Taiwan University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aircrafts
  • Assimilation
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Feedback
  • High Resolution
  • Information Operations
  • Intensity
  • Kalman Filters
  • Observation
  • Oceans
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Sea Level
  • Simulations
  • Surface Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers