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Extratropical Report: Simulating 2007 and 2005 storms in Massachusetts. Don Slinn, Jeff Ren , Go Fujita Univ of Florida Coastal Engineering. MDL’s Extratropical Storm Surge. An Introduction. Anne Kramer Scientific Programmer NOAA/NWS/OST/MDL & TCA. ETSS background.
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Extratropical Report: Simulating 2007 and 2005 storms in Massachusetts Don Slinn, Jeff Ren, Go Fujita Univ of Florida Coastal Engineering
MDL’s ExtratropicalStorm Surge An Introduction Anne Kramer Scientific Programmer NOAA/NWS/OST/MDL & TCA
ETSS background • ETSS model is based on SLOSH, but modified to use GFS winds on 1° grid • Runs 4x daily in NCEP operations • Basins updated at MDL’s discretion; updates: • Alaska, Bering Sea: 1996 • Alaska, Arctic: 1998 • Gulf of Alaska: 2008 • East Coast: 1999, 2008 • Gulf of Mexico: 1999, 2011 • West Coast: 1998, 2011
ETSS background • Resolution varies • Gulf of Mexico ~ 4km • East Coast ~ 9.4km • Alaska ~ 6.7km • West Coast ~ 6.5km • Each run has a 2 day initialization and a 4 day forecast period, for a total of 6 days • Results posted to the web • http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/etsurge/ (text & hydrographs) • http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/SL.us008001/ST.expr/DF.gr2/DC.ndgd/GT.slosh/ (gridded data) • http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/Loops/SURGE_GOM_EAST/SURGE_GOM_EAST_96_HR.shtml (gridded)
MDL’s Participation in SURA Inundation Testbed Effort • Completed • Uploaded to SURA server: • archived forecast graphs and text files for north East Coast stations for the 3 periods of interest • Projected • Reproduce gridded forecasts using archived GFS wind data • Potentially create gridded hindcasts using reanalysis GDAS winds
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Another 4 days of the 2007 storm when winds and waves were smaller
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Summary • Simulated 2005 and 2007 storms for 4 or 8 days • Waves heights are reasonable • In the 2007 storm, 30% of the surge is from waves • Wind fields (no pressure fields) in different formats implemented into SLOSH (no tides) • Waves on Nested grids • Operational Extratropical Slosh on coarser grid