Great Lakes Observing & Forecasting Systems
High-resolution atmospheric, wave, ice and circulation modelguidance system for the Great Lakes region
Overview and Objectives
The Great Lakes region currently has no model guidance capacity regarding the combined wind and wave-induced coastal surge events including meteotsunamis/seiches. In addition, inclusion of ice processes in the model guidance is required to predict rapidly changing events including ice break-up (lead formation) and ice jams. This across-NOAA collaborative work under NOAA’s Coastal Storm Program develops a combined circulation, ice, and wave model on an unstructured grid that will be forced by a high-resolution atmospheric model. The objective of this project is to conduct and evaluate high-resolution winter simulations for the Great Lakes using atmospheric, ice and hydrodynamic models. The use of high-resolution atmospheric simulations provides a detailed description of offshore meteorology, which is missing in the interpolated meteorology that is used at GLERL, as well as the relatively low-resolution atmospheric reanalysis datasets (e.g., the North American Atmospheric Reanalysis and the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis).
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Presentations
PrincipaI Investigator(s):
Ayumi Manome (CILER)
NOAA Technical Lead(s):
Eric Anderson (NOAA-GLERL)
Jia Wang (NOAA-GLERL)