Analysis of Mixing and Dynamics Associated with the Dissolution of Hurricane-Induced Cold Wakes

Abstract

The main objective of the research is to provide scientists with a clearer understanding of the relative importance of the physical mechanisms involved in the recovery of the ocean from a cold wake formation, and to provide additional value and insight to the observations already being undertaken by the ITOP program. Our approach is to take two three-dimensional ocean models (our version of CUPOM and HYCOM) that have been adapted for idealized simulations and conduct a series of experiments aimed at understanding the relative roles of the surface forcing, wave-induced mixing and other turbulent processes, and horizontal eddy actions at the mesoscale and submesoscale regimes in affecting the recovery of the ocean from the tropical cyclone. The comparisons of the two models will also provide information on the uncertainty of our results due to varying physical parameterizations of the models, and also provide insight into our further realistic model simulations with the POM model as compared to the work that other researchers are performing with HYCOM. The approach is to use two high-resolution ocean models (a hybrid version of CUPOM, and HYCOM), and use idealized and realistic simulations of cold wakes and observations from the ITOP field campaign to investigate the restratification processes affecting cold wakes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2012
Accession Number
ADA590437

Entities

People

  • Carol A. Clayson

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Biological Phenomena
  • Climate Change
  • Cyclones
  • Dynamics
  • Ecological And Environmental Phenomena
  • High Resolution
  • Hurricanes
  • Observation
  • Oceans
  • Recovery
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Simulations
  • Surface Temperature
  • Three Dimensional
  • Tropical Cyclones
  • Turbulence

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation