An Integrated Hydrological Modeling System for High_Resloution Coastal Applications
Abstract
Abstract The objective is to develop, test, and transition a new prototype high-resolution coupled hydrological modeling capability within COAMPS. The proposed Navy capability will leverage ongoing and new hydrological community efforts to create an integrated, generalized Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF)-based system compatible with current state-of-the-art LS and hydrological systems (such as the NASA LIS and WRFHydro, and NASA LIS/”NLDAS”, a community uncoupled multi-land-model ensemble, run operationally over CONUS at NCEP; NLDAS: North American Land Data Assimilation System). This initial capability will be obtained through the integration/development and testing at high-resolution of the linked LS hydrological system and the atmospheric moist physics scheme within the coupled air-land-ocean COAMPS framework. This linkage will provide a new capability for accurately quantifying the impact of coastal terrestrial hydrological events on the LS at highresolution, such as flash flooding, beach erosion, and LS traffic-ability. The modular ESMF-based structure will facilitate inter-comparison with other LS, hydrological and moist physics/cloud schemes within LIS and WRF-Hydro. This new coupled system will serve as the baseline development and validation of important coupled atmospheric-LS hydrological processes and will establish the foundation necessary for a fully coupled land-ocean system that would include interactions with marine processes, such as fresh-water stream inflow affecting near-coast water density vertical structure and transport of riverine sediment impacting local bathymetry and water clarity.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Aug 12, 2016
- Source ID
- N000141512205
Entities
People
- Cecelia Deluca
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- Regents of the University of Colorado
- United States Navy