Mesoscale Air-Sea Coupling in Tropical Cyclones Isidore and Lili

热带气旋伊西多尔和莉莉中的中尺度海气耦合

• 批准号: 0444525
• 负责人: Lynn Shay
• 金额: $ 66.83万
• 依托单位: University of Miami
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-05-01 至 2011-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0444525&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mesoscale; Air; Sea; Coupling; Tropical

The long-term goal of this research is to improve understanding of how mesoscale ocean processes modify the near surface wind structure of tropical cyclones through air sea interactions. Of particular importance are the interactions occurring as tropical cyclones pass over warm oceanic features off the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States. Understanding lower boundary effects is not only important from a research perspective, but also has far reaching consequences with respect to forecasting the surface wind field and intensity changes for landfalling storms. The main research theme involves the physical effects of oceanic vertical mixing and advection on heat, moisture, and momentum fluxes in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) as tropical cyclones encounter mesoscale ocean features. Specific research objectives are:1. Improve pre and post storm ocean heat content estimates (OHC) using in situ and satellite derived fields.2. Examine the forcing by warm ocean features on enhanced surfaces stresses, fluxes and surface waves in the ABL embedded within the direct forcing region, and the role of the ocean mixed layer (OML) feedback on the ABL.3. Quantify the roles of mixing and horizontal advection of mass, heat, and salt by analyzing their budgets in the OML, focusing especially on the effects of precipitation.4. Document the variability in the atmospheric environment such as equivalent potential temperature and wind shear relative to the storm and upper ocean variability.During Hurricane Isidore and Lili (in 2002), the Principal Investigator and collaborators were able to collect one of the most comprehensive ocean atmosphere data sets to date under strong hurricane forcing conditions. These observations included measurements of upper ocean current, temperature and salinity profiles along with simultaneous atmospheric temperature, moisture and wind profiles. Additionally, the large scale atmospheric variability was observed using several hundred atmospheric sondes released from a research aircraft from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. To achieve the research objectives, the Principal Investigator will utilize a combined observational and numerical approach using the aforementioned data and the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM). An important aspect of this research will be to develop a set of consistent metrics in order to assess the performance of the ocean model in simulating the upper ocean response to TC forcing. Successful completion of this research eventually could lead to improvements in forecast models that could lead to better intensity forecasts for tropical cyclones.

这项研究的长期目标是提高对中尺度海洋过程如何通过海气相互作用改变热带气旋近地表风结构的理解。 特别重要的是热带气旋经过美国大西洋和墨西哥湾沿岸温暖的海洋特征时发生的相互作用。 了解下边界效应不仅从研究角度来看很重要，而且对于预测登陆风暴的表面风场和强度变化也具有深远的影响。 主要研究主题涉及当热带气旋遇到中尺度海洋特征时，海洋垂直混合和平流对大气边界层（ABL）中的热量、水分和动量通量的物理影响。 具体研究目标是： 1．使用现场和卫星衍生字段改进风暴前后海洋热含量估算 (OHC)。2．检查直接强迫区域内嵌入的 ABL 中温暖海洋特征对增强表面应力、通量和表面波的强迫，以及海洋混合层 (OML) 反馈对 ABL.3 的作用。通过分析 OML 中的预算，量化质量、热量和盐的混合和水平平流的作用，特别关注降水的影响。4．记录大气环境的变化，例如相对于风暴和上层海洋变化的等效潜在温度和风切变。在伊西多尔和莉莉飓风期间（2002 年），首席研究员和合作者能够收集最全面的海洋大气之一迄今为止在强飓风强迫条件下的数据集。 这些观测包括对上层洋流、温度和盐度剖面以及同步大气温度、湿度和风剖面的测量。 此外，使用美国国家海洋和大气管理局的一架研究飞机释放的数百个大气探空仪观测到了大规模的大气变化。 为了实现研究目标，首席研究员将利用上述数据和混合坐标海洋模型（HYCOM），采用观测和数值相结合的方法。 这项研究的一个重要方面是开发一套一致的指标，以评估海洋模型在模拟上层海洋对热带气旋强迫的响应方面的性能。 这项研究的成功完成最终可能会改进预测模型，从而更好地预测热带气旋的强度。