Research Update

Hui Qian

• Select hurricane Gustav and Ike as an example to analyze the ocean dynamics in the GoM

• Run the model hindcast for August and Sepemter,2008 to get the diagnostic output.

Last Week

Hurricane Track year: 2008

Time evolution of depth -averaged vorticity

Shelf point

Eddy edge point

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Year: 2008

Gustav Ike

Depth averaged vorticity in the GoM

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Depth averaged momentum in the GoM

U momentum

V momentum

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U momentum

V momentum

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U momentum

U momentum

V momentum

V momentum

WFS section

Cross eddy section

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U momentum

V momentum

U momentum

V momentum

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U momentum

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U momentum

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Zoom in view

Time evolution of surface momentum for shelf and eddy points

Shelf point

Eddy point

Time evolution of volume integrated energy in the GoM

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